Hey dudes,
I’m not sure what good powdercoating will do for pipes performance yet. I'm postive that powdercoating helps the pipe to stay cooler. I will try it on a couple of pipes and be able to talk more intelligently about it later. For now, I’m thinking anodizing is the best thing for improving a pipes performance since it makes the material considerably harder.
“Back in the day” when I raced bikes, the ceramic powdercoated headers were the way to go since it dramatically increased the rate at which the header could transmit heat to the atmosphere and provide for a more consistent tuned pipe temperature for a motor that was being cycled (pardon the pun) up and down the heat range of the motor.
The main reason I was looking at it is because the RC car industry is looking for better ways of cooling motors. There is a nitro engine modifier (JP) that uses this process on novarossi crankcases to increase the transmissivity of the case. I was thinking about creating some of the same product since their cases are going for Big Bucks.
as far as I know, CMB is powdercoating all of their .21 cases now...and rossi is Powdercoating their high end cases ......maybe they know something?
Just a thought,
Thanks for the input fellas
