porting/polishing/ceramic coating options

[philly15]

hi everyone just wanted to share some of the options ive used in the past on my subarus i know someone in a thread asked about services that would be able to port and polish turbos for them so thought id shed some light on the subject:

in the past ive used grimmspeed and blouch performance turbo both of which do great work and excellent customer service, forced performance also does turbo porting. these are the three main ones im aware of in the subaru community but im sure there are a large variety of companies out there.

grimmspeed offers a porting and polishing as well as ceramic coating for almost everything
-tgv deletes
-exhaust manifolds
-intake manifolds
-full turbo back exhaust
-up pipe
-throttle body
-turbo

ive only used the turbo porting and polishing and ceramic coating from blouch but the quality at both places was superb im sure if you ask them they would probably do more than just a turbo

for the 818 i decided to use a smaller business called Proport, its a small company in Clarksville, TN who specializes in porting and polishing as well as ceramic coating for subarus and other imports. i bought a vf43 from the owner off of NASIOC and it was ported and polished as well as ceramic coated by him after seeing the work on the turbo i sent off my intake manifold and tgvs to him to do some custom work for me (since i was too lazy to port everything myself) just got em back today so id thought id share with everyone he also sent me a few smaller stickers with my race team name for free:

I had him stencil on my race team name as well turned out pretty good matches everything in my engine bay well im having everything in black and red on the engine

http://i981.photobucket.com/albums/ae293/philly1515/037.jpg

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http://i981.photobucket.com/albums/ae293/philly1515/036.jpg

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[veloce2]

Like that crinkle finish! Very Italian

[wallace18]

That should allow quite a bit of flow. Looks good too.

[longislandwrx]

let's see the turbo.

[Mechie3]

It looks like he only went partway into the intake manifold. I don't know what tools GS uses, but they're able to port the entire runner.

[RM1SepEx]

that looks like wrinkle powder coat... ceramic is usually smooth...

[longislandwrx]

It's most likely coated... the manifold has a rough texture that shows through. My coated manifold looks the same.

[305mouse]

It looks like he only went partway into the intake manifold. I don't know what tools GS uses, but they're able to port the entire runner.

I noticed that too

[philly15]

It looks like he only went partway into the intake manifold. I don't know what tools GS uses, but they're able to port the entire runner.

yea i saw that when i got it oh well i mainly sent it for the tgvs and to get the coating/lettering done oh well will still benefit i just didnt want those darn tgvs in there

[philly15]

another cool thing i was thinking about doing was having some stuff done via water transfer printing a friend of a friend owns a business who does this was thinking about having one of my sets of wheels done up with the army digital camo have lots of sweet designs would be cool to have something different like this has a cool video on his facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/DcHydrodip

[CCPcoatings]

that looks like wrinkle powder coat... ceramic is usually smooth...

I think you're right. It appears to be a wrinkle powder. Even though the manifold has a light texture from there is definitely a texture from the coating which would indicate powder coating as Ceramic are not textured. There are some that may have some slight sand like specs, but it wouldn't be confused with a texture. There is a remote chance it's a high temp powder which has a bit of texture as well, but it offers NO thermal properties, it's basically a powdered BBQ paint.

Typical wrinkle finish on a textured manifold
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-T31MkS13r5o/SVe_vO41_cI/AAAAAAAAAVI/b_ZD9HjWnqo/s720/Autorama%2520Parts%25202%2520020.jpg

Typical smooth ceramic coating
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-LLG4JT4UdLg/Sm052L5z8rI/AAAAAAAACKE/ai398GEldUU/s720/DSCF0058.JPG

[longislandwrx]

But you are comparing smooth steel with a cast aluminum manifold. I would like to see wrinkle vs coated on the same manifold. Here is a picture of my thermal coated manifold for comparison.

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[freds]

But you are comparing smooth steel with a cast aluminum manifold. I would like to see wrinkle vs coated on the same manifold. Here is a picture of my thermal coated manifold for comparison.

16348

Is that Kermit with a sun shade to keep the rays off?

[longislandwrx]

LOL yup, so the bling-bling doesn't blind me. The work bench has been cleaned since this picture was snapped. Actually mounted the vise and really tidied up. Very happy with how the 818s new home is (slowly) turning out.

[CCPcoatings]

But you are comparing smooth steel with a cast aluminum manifold. I would like to see wrinkle vs coated on the same manifold. Here is a picture of my thermal coated manifold for comparison.

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I wasn't really comparing anything. I was showing you what wrinkle powder on a cast alum part looks like as well as smooth ceramic on an equally smooth part. Smooth ceramic will obviously take on what ever texture it is put over such as below.

I can't find any over aluminum at the moment but these are cast iron parts of varying texture with a smooth Ceramic applied....

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tycZ7Wwj0QQ/ToaqU6RFlcI/AAAAAAAADQ0/1PWd90YcpgE/s720/DSCF0251.JPG

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Kl-mudeqEUQ/S9RnTSQ8J7I/AAAAAAAACqI/B3KzM2ZXwZM/s720/DSCF0250.JPG

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M4GVTdXafyA/SVxSkjhYzkI/AAAAAAAAA78/H4Usc7Yvrdw/s768/Race%2520car%2520engine%2520004.jpg

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Iuqaow7_MPE/TuLhLmkjo8I/AAAAAAAAD2I/OEMANpaLROw/s720/DSCF0168.JPG

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-K6IwK28NTlc/SOq6WJ0y8iI/AAAAAAAAACU/mDvGAkPjqwg/s720/Autorama%2520Parts%25202%2520017.jpg

[longislandwrx]

thank you for these coating examples.

[Racebrewer]

Hi CCP,

Nice to have a pro coater on the forums. Where are you located?

John

[CCPcoatings]

Hi CCP,

Nice to have a pro coater on the forums. Where are you located?

John

Glad to help. We're based in Detroit.