Painting the intercooler? Any cons?
#1
Painting the intercooler? Any cons?
I know there's a couple of you on here that have painted your intercoolers... I am thinking of doing the same this weekend but I want to make sure that there are no ill effects in doing so.
I'm just gonna paint mine flat black, but I want to make sure that coating the intercooler with additional paint won't actually take away from the cooling properties of the intercooler...
Can someone chime in?
I'm just gonna paint mine flat black, but I want to make sure that coating the intercooler with additional paint won't actually take away from the cooling properties of the intercooler...
Can someone chime in?
#3
yea, i researched ambient heat temps and the correlation between color and heat dispersion. the verdict was, it does make a difference in how much and how long a black engine part holds heat but not enough to worry about it. the raised temp is minimal and i am talking fractions of a degree.
#4
yea, i researched ambient heat temps and the correlation between color and heat dispersion. the verdict was, it does make a difference in how much and how long a black engine part holds heat but not enough to worry about it. the raised temp is minimal and i am talking fractions of a degree.
#6
that would cost so much tho. and with the intercooler, expect it to get dinged up with rock chips. painting them is easy and you can repaint them whenever they get too ratty looking. although, an anodized intercooler would be badass.
#16
i wanna see a white intercooler
#17
white contains the entire spectrum of colors. black is void of light/color. unless you're talking about color pigments like paint, but you said spectrum. rainbows come from white light being diffracted into its individual colors, for example. actually you said pigment too. so i guess you're half right lol. or i'm just wrong?
Last edited by doctordoom; 09-29-2008 at 12:26 AM.
#19
white light is all the colors combined...have u never seen white light get separated to all the colors from prism in a grade 6 science text book?
have u never heard of or ever seen a rainbow?
pigment????
how much "pigment" do u think there is in pure substances like 100% gold (gold is not white) or 100% carbon as in coal (black) or diamond (clear)
both not white and none of them have any "pigment" in them
please please please don't try to answer anything vaguely scientific
it makes dumb people even dumber
looking things up in a dictionary or even googling them = virtually zero effort
sorry to be a little rude but it's 1000x ruder to spread "dumbassness" around - it's way too contagious
#20
white contains the entire spectrum of colors. black is void of light/color. unless you're talking about color pigments like paint, but you said spectrum. rainbows come from white light being diffracted into its individual colors, for example. actually you said pigment too. so i guess you're half right lol. or i'm just wrong?