Thursday, October 24, 2013

Cummins 24v Cerakoted high-flow manifold.

This is Adams Dodge. The old manifold cracked (like they do) so he ordered up a 3 piece ported mani. It's supposed to allow expansion to prevent future cracks. He got it home and immediately wanted to have it coated. A local coater wanted a lot of money for the job. After a breif discussion Adam ordered up a tester of the air dry Cerakote. This started the whole powder-coat/oven debacle. For this project we only needed to gas-out or "out-gas" the unit. We threw it on my grille and monitored the temp via infrared gun. I should mention that before all this Adam picked up a bag of 90grit aluminum oxide media, and after cleaning all the glass bead out of my blast cabinet we had a perfect setup for future coating, whatever that may be. We hanged it and adam sprayed the product. It's been two weeks and the Cerakote is holding up amazing.






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