Ceramic Coating Intake?

[NathanJax]

A lot of people are worried about getting there air intake temperatures lower, which made me think about this. Looking at this thread Home Depot'd my CAI and dropped my IAT 20 degrees! made me think about Ceramic Coating...


1. Would you see any gains by getting your aftermarket intake tubing and/or air box coated? How much of a lower temp do you get or would you need to get to see the most HP gains.?

2. Obviously cost would be a factor. If it cost $100 to coat, is that worth the lower temp and HP you would possibly see.

3. If cost was a factor, could you get the ceramic coating in a can for brakes and just scuff up the metal and do it yourself? Would $20 because reasonable to spend if it did in fact get your IAT's down?



Just throwing some ideas around and wanted to get some input from the community. I'm only doing a few Performance mods, but I guess if you could take a mod like an aftermarket intake and make it the best possible, why not?


Thanks,

Nathan

 

[T3rry]

IMO, the air travels so fast, if it's not warm to start with, the 2 foot travel through your CIA tube isn't going to warm it up to the point that it'd make a noticeable difference.

 

[pmbiker]

Ceramic coating like whats used on headers is a HIGH-TEMP application. It helps keep the under hood temps in check by reducing the heat given off by the headers. A coating of ceramic would do little to nothing for IAT.

Plus the factory intake tube and manifold itself are plastic as well as some aftermarket tubes. I doubt the ceramic coating could be applied to plastic.

 

[blueflamed03]

it can on aluminum, but not plastic, it is sprayed on and then heated.
I have sued coatings on intakes, headers, pistons, exhasut parts, etc,etc...but IMHO, wouldn't use it on the CAI tube.

 

[TheFuzz]

IMO, the air travels so fast, if it's not warm to start with, the 2 foot travel through your CIA tube isn't going to warm it up to the point that it'd make a noticeable difference.

+1. It's a very good idea in concept, but when you really break it down and think about the air velocity + distance traveled, you would see very little gain, if any at all. Certainly not enough of one to justify the cost. The air is moving way too fast to be affected by heat soak.

Having a good air source that is going to provide cool air for the intake is much more important, IMO.