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l_uk3y Proficient

l_uk3y

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As the poll suggests. Ive just bought exhuast and cooler today. the big question being. On a silver car. are people leaning towards getting it out there for the world too see, or does the idea of concealing it partially to make people look twice to notice sound more enticing.

The theme of the car is a clean street car. No bodykit or huge chromies planned.

The other question. What sort of paint would be recommended as odviously some heat will be involved?? Also would a layer of paint normally reduce an IC's ability to lose efficiency??

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Rancher Community Regular

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The reason its polished is so that sun light bounces off it, not soaking with heat. Painting it will cause it to not work too well, and heat soak faster then if it were polished. People might like the look of it being out there, but still. Black mesh might be ok, but could take away the cool air being passed through the intercooler when the mesh gets hot.

IMHO leave it polished, and not behind mesh.

SLIPPERY Experienced

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zoom or someone similar did a test with black versus polished a few years back and the black cooler (was a GTR cooler) produced cooler inlet charges by a little

This was because the black paint radiated heat better than a silver/chrome surface, which is what you want.

Sunlight isnt gonna cause too much heat soak

r33cruiser Grand Master

r33cruiser

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As the poll suggests. Ive just bought exhuast and cooler today. the big question being. On a silver car. are people leaning towards getting it out there for the world too see, or does the idea of concealing it partially to make people look twice to notice sound more enticing.

The theme of the car is a clean street car. No bodykit or huge chromies planned.

The other question. What sort of paint would be recommended as odviously some heat will be involved?? Also would a layer of paint normally reduce an IC's ability to lose efficiency??

hi , ive been thinking about this issue as well. at the moment i have the cooler on show. but recently ive been thinking of puttiing some black mesh in front of it. that way u will still see the silouette of it. either way will look good

13thracer Rising Star

13thracer

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go the black cooler, and personally i havent had any issues with a can black job i painted mine with a can and cant fault it havent looked at my inlet temps through my microtech but my mates wrx who also painted his with a can of black saw no change in inlet temps from when it was shinny (monitored through his microtech) during the day it is the same and at night has seen his inlet temp drop into single figures.

STATUS Grand Master

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the greddy coolers have a special anti corrision treatment on their V-SPL and R-SPL coolers that is as functional as it is pretty (polishes up nice and still radiates heat very well)

ardie Experienced

ardie

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better yet, put an hks stencil on it, imagine the power gain then! personally i like the wank factor of the silver cooler, then again i have a black car, so a black cooler would blend right in. i really like the look of a clean silver SII with a cooler mounted nicely behind the front bar, but that might be just me

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