FAQs

This list provides a simple outline that explains how the ceramic coating process can help your parts perform better and last longer all while maintaining a showroom finish.

• Improves thermal efficiency of the engine system.
• Reduces radiated heat levels on all exhaust components, especially effective on tubular performance headers and exhaust manifolds.
• Maintains uniform temperature throughout the exhaust system.
• “Trapped” heat improves exhaust gas velocity, effectively “scavenging” each cylinder and increasing horsepower and torque.
• Keeps the engine compartment cooler.
• Extends header life.
• Lower temperatures extend the life of neighbouring components.
• Improves thermal oxidation protection at higher temperatures.
• Reduces parasitic drag losses.
• Provides a custom appearance with flat, satin, finishes.
• Easy to clean and maintain.
• Ceramic coating provides protection against rust and corrosion.
• Available in a variety of colours and finishes to fit any project.
• Mil-Spec rated material and approved QPL colours
• Ceramic coating for firearm application

Typically, a consumer will use a high-temperature ceramic coating on high performance, aftermarket parts or refurbishing original items. It can be applied to aluminium, stainless steel, carbon steel, chrome, and cast iron.

It is also exceptional on pistons, headers, turbo intakes, housings, brackets, and exhaust manifolds, headers, and pipes.

V Series Piston Coat is a dark bronze/gold with a soft metallic look. It’s an oven cure ceramic thin film thermal barrier coating, designed to be applied on the top of pistons, top of valves and the combustion chamber on a cylinder head. Suitable Substrates:

All ferrous and non-ferrous metals.

All V Series coatings are one-part, ready to spray.

V Series ceramic coatings are the unrivalled leader in high-temperature thin-film performance coatings, capable of temperature up to 1800F.

V Series coatings provide unmatched high-temperature performance while providing excellent chemical resistance, durability, and aesthetics.

The foundation for Cerakote V Series coatings is a unique inorganic ceramic technology that imparts both high-temperature performance and excellent physical stability. Due to the inorganic chemistry.

Most car enthusiasts invest thousands in upgrading their fuel and exhaust systems for optimal performance. If they are smart, they will protect those investments with a spray high-temperature ceramic coating, simply due to the multiple advantages they produce.

Further reasons to ceramic coat your exhaust and fuel system components is to protect them from exposure to high heat, oxidants, corrosion, and rusting. Headers and exhaust system parts specifically are exposed to debris and contaminants from below the vehicle. This can include road grime, salts, and other chemicals, dirt, and debris and more.

For those living near oceans or saltwater lakes, the exhaust pipes (specifically those under the vehicle) can quickly become corroded, slowly rust, and eventually crack.

Applying a high-temperature ceramic coating protects your undercarriage exhaust parts from oil and gas and other chemicals that lead to corrosion of metals. Some ceramic coating products can even help reduce damage from rocks, sand, and dirt, and even tree branches.

You have probably been introduced to the term thermal cycling. If you have not, here is basically what happens. As parts get hot (like glowing red hot as they do inside a turbo’s housing), then rapidly cool – the metals go through a thermal cycle. Over time, this can cause the metals to become brittle, leading to damaging like cracking, corrosion, and complete failure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermo-mechanical_fatigue

Applying a high-temperature ceramic coating spray on turbo parts (specifically those powered by diesel fuel) helps to maintain a lower surface temperature of metals. This reduces thermal cycling/, fatigue

which extends the lifespan of turbo housings and other parts that go through rapid temperature cycling.

Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) with improved resistance against, thermal cycling to prevent problems of over-heating in the hot sections such as manifolds & exhaust systems. Plasma-sprayed TBCs consisting of a bond coat and zirconia overlayers stabilized with different materials.  The best performance in all tests was shown by zirconia partially stabilized according to rigours testing as used in Aircraft Jet engines; furthermore, heat treatments, as well as ongoing optimization of the spraying parameters of the TBCs, demonstrate radical improvement in heat reduction and corrosion resistance and performance in some instances.
The ceramic coating offers a heat insulator and will reduce the overall surface temperature within the exhaust by up to one third.

Reducing surface temperature under the bonnet helps to make a cooler environment for the intake temperatures and can help to improve the engine power.

Ceramic coatings are used by some motorsport enthusiasts and also commonly used other parts that will experience high temperatures, even including parts of the car body shell to help keep the cabin temperature lower.

Ceramic Coating is the most advanced and durable thermal barrier on the market. Available in a variety of colours, ceramic coatings give your project a personalized touch that will make your project superior in both appearance and performance vs. the competition. From the corrosion and debris protection to reductions in the radiant heat of up to 50% in some cases, in more practical terms it will be up to 30-35 %, the ceramic coating will improve your engine’s horsepower and torque while extending component life by reducing temperature fatigue in critical components.

• Headers
• Mufflers
• Exhaust Pipes
• Intake Manifold
• Exhaust Manifold
• Heads
• Engine Blocks
• Firearms
• Stoves
• Exterior flues.

Note. this product is not food rated and should not be used on hot plates or where it comes in contact with foodstuffs.
Ceramic clear coats can be applied to: all of the above (subject to the temperature rating).