Ceramic Coating

[trevor572]

Hi. I am thinking about having the same ceramic coating ( polished chrome like in appearance ) that is being applied to my headers also applied to a set of cast aluminium valve covers and aluminium air cleaner, nothing at all to do with thermal qualities, just looking for a low maintenance alternative to polishing that will match up with billet engine accessories. Anyone encountered any problems at all with that sort of thing? Cheers.

[BMR Sales]

After I had a set of Headers coated by Jet-Hot in the "Polished" look they got Oil on them and that left a permanent discolorization.

The Polished Look Ceramic will not match a Polished piece of Billet IMHO

[CCPcoatings]

Hi. I am thinking about having the same ceramic coating ( polished chrome like in appearance ) that is being applied to my headers also applied to a set of cast aluminium valve covers and aluminium air cleaner, nothing at all to do with thermal qualities, just looking for a low maintenance alternative to polishing that will match up with billet engine accessories. Anyone encountered any problems at all with that sort of thing? Cheers.


Hello Trevor:

If you're looking to coat these components with bright Ceramic purely as a "low maintenance" alternative to polished aluminum, you may want to rethink it. The "Chrome like" component to bright Ceramic Coating is in fact ALUMINUM. So all you're doing is substituting one form of aluminum for another.

The best "Low Maintenance" strategy for polished aluminum components is having them clear coated. The materials of choice here are clear powder coating or Ceramic Coating. Depending on the application, you can get temperature protection up to about 1000F with no discoloration or yellowing. Once they're clear coated you'll NEVER have to polish them again.....

The parts below were polished and clear coated......The clears are essentially optically clear, hence the reason you can see some questionable polishing work.....

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-WiTgp9hKnZA/UPx9rFnGElI/AAAAAAAAFRc/IiLixDOSlvU/s720-Ic42/IMG-20121123-00621.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dzMqVb8KIWQ/UPx97F2k6TI/AAAAAAAAFRc/RWb0B_SHAHU/s720-Ic42/IMG-20121123-00637.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZF6xl7EFSS0/Tul0J7_vb_I/AAAAAAAAHzA/EBW-e3vxOkI/s720-Ic42/DSCF0273.JPG

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-exaW0cMFMT4/TulzTDE2hvI/AAAAAAAAHHc/6rjVBnIn-oQ/s720-Ic42/DSCF0160.JPG

[transam]

If your headers are stainless look into electro polishing. I've seen a few headers done with it, and it looks great.

[trevor572]

Hello Trevor:

If you're looking to coat these components with bright Ceramic purely as a "low maintenance" alternative to polished aluminum, you may want to rethink it. The "Chrome like" component to bright Ceramic Coating is in fact ALUMINUM. So all you're doing is substituting one form of aluminum for another.

The best "Low Maintenance" strategy for polished aluminum components is having them clear coated. The materials of choice here are clear powder coating or Ceramic Coating. Depending on the application, you can get temperature protection up to about 1000F with no discoloration or yellowing. Once they're clear coated you'll NEVER have to polish them again.....

The parts below were polished and clear coated......The clears are essentially optically clear, hence the reason you can see some questionable polishing work.....

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-WiTgp9hKnZA/UPx9rFnGElI/AAAAAAAAFRc/IiLixDOSlvU/s720-Ic42/IMG-20121123-00621.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dzMqVb8KIWQ/UPx97F2k6TI/AAAAAAAAFRc/RWb0B_SHAHU/s720-Ic42/IMG-20121123-00637.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZF6xl7EFSS0/Tul0J7_vb_I/AAAAAAAAHzA/EBW-e3vxOkI/s720-Ic42/DSCF0273.JPG

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-exaW0cMFMT4/TulzTDE2hvI/AAAAAAAAHHc/6rjVBnIn-oQ/s720-Ic42/DSCF0160.JPG

Hi. Thanks for the information. The valve covers currently have the original orange powder coating, I realise that has to be removed, but I was looking for the easiest option with regard to finishing. Cheers Trevor.

[Beechy]

Remove existing anodize with oven cleaner, carefully ( if any ).....
Polish.......
Clear anodize.....

:relax: