Not cheap, about $40 a roll, but a roll could do 2-3 intakes.

 

Do you have any left? Ill give you 20?

 

Yeah I still have some, We can exchange it tonight if you have the money, you'll just need to get some big zip ties, but those are cheap.

 

I won't have the money till next week so ill just wait till then.lol. But thanks! I can't wait, hopefully it will help take away some of my freakin knock!!lol

 

looks good!

 

I was considering painting the supercharger since i dont think i would have the patience for polishing it. Looks good tho!

 

I hope you have some cooling mods done... that paint, though it does look pretty cool, is going to trap more heat in your s/c and create higher intake temps... but as long as you don't go below a 3.0 pulley, you really won't notice it too much excpet for on extended WOT runs.

 

That's what you'd like to think, but it really has little relevance. Any heat created by the supercharger will transfer into the paint, and then dissipate like normal. The paint just has the ability to withstand 500*, not to retain 500*. I will scan it with my HPTuners just to be safe.

 

actually its what I know... I've seen one guy that has his s/c powdercoated and IAT2's went up like 50 deg's on average with a stock pulley... I know paint won't retain as much as powder coating, but thats just an example

 

Like I said, I'll scan it. 50* would be outrageous, and highly unlikely, but also unwanted. If there is a big difference I will post against doing that mod.

 

napa sells it man

 

Geez! I forgot to post my findings on the painted supercharger.

No heat gains. Surprisingly my IAT1 Temps are 126* with 113* outside air temps. IAT2 is only 131-135* When cruising it's only about 6* above IAT1.

That is puzzling to me and everyone else, because the other cars I have scanned are running IAT2 about 20-25* over IAT1.

So long story short, the Caliper brush on paint did not raise temps, however I do not attribute it to ANY cooling.

BTW, I have NO cooling mods unless you count reset fans and water wetter, but no dual pass or heat exchanger.

 

Looks good man, how long did this take you?

 

About Thirty Minutes. And it doesn't chip or wear off that easily.

 

and you just taped everything off and used caliper paint? (how many coats)?

btw get some better quality pics, im interested in doing this!

 

I didn't tape a damn thing off. Later I took my intake manifold off and super charger off to paint them from every angle just for good measure. And I have been lazy to do something with the sparkplugcover and oil cap. Been meaning to do something there.

One coat, Brush-on caliper paint. IF you know how to paint smoothly, it won't look like crap, but I have had about 6 years of painting experience. For everyone else I recommend taping off everything you don't want to drip on. I did remove the spark plug cover and fuel rail cover to do the painting.

I'll get beter quality pics. It makes the engien compartment look so much cleaner.

I will also post up a black and red engine compartment we did.

 

You said you didnt take anything off....

 

Nothing in those pictures that I PAINTED came off the car. I removed the 2 covers to get them out of the way.

I didn't spray the paint on, so it was not neccisary to remove the valve covers, etc.

Here is another poor quality picture from another engine we did. This belongs to CGSS.

 

Not too bad...

 

Dude Both look amazing... I LOVE the contrasting colors... I want a supercharger just to paint it. I wont even hook it up, just install it.

 

The black superchargers look WAY better IMO than the metal ones. You can paint the vavle cover whatever color you want, but the black S/C and intercooler as much cleaner and meaner.