I am wanting to have the 2.0L heads on my turbo motor coated with a thermal barrier. Does anyone have any suggestions on where to have this done and how much it should/will cost? Better yet, does anyone have a shop that does this?

-Britain

Swaintech jet hot, and airborne keep poking up

Swain actualy offers some tech stuff... even though most of these coatings manufacturers websites suck swain wins for me

Is that a good idea? I thought piston tops was ok but the heads?

Geoff

Pay to have it done by a professional is all I can say

.....my coating on the top of my "homedone" pistons is flaking off. The heads held up okay, so I must have done something wrong to the piston surface or prep......

of course, running the car with an A/F ratio of 17:1 might have caused some of the damage.......glad I got the car onto a dyno before "real" damage happened.

I've had good luck with Jet Hot.

I'm thinking Turbo headers will need the "2000" coating.

A set of V-8 headers are 225.00 inside and out IIRC.

I used Jet-Hot on my headers.

Great job. Easy to deal with.

Bill

Britain,
Try calling a company called PolyDyn performance coatings.They are out in Houston I think.Web site is www.polydyn.com
I used them back in the early '90s while doing some weekend mini-stock racing.They did many internal engine parts for me,of various types.An example on a piston.Thermal barrier on top,wear coating on skirts,and a teflon coating underneath the piston only came to about $10.00 per piston.We also did an oil absorbant coating on all the rod&main brg's.You'll have to adjust for proper clearances or you'll sieze a crank like we did the first time we toyed with coatings.Once we sorted that issue out and started over,I will say our engine did run 5-10 degrees cooler with the coatings while we raced it.
They'll send you free info.
Ron