rocket-roy

Hi all

I am thinking of powder coating my engine cover. A nice candy purple and silver.

Anyone done this before? I am unsure if this is suitable for this sort of engine cover.

Any advice would be gratefully received.

Many thanks.

rocket-roy

beefstallionAMG

The information you provided is really broad. What year car is it? As long as its a high temp coating you should not have any issues with it. I assume your car is some type of show car?

rocket-roy

Hi beefstallionAMG

Many thanks for the response.

The car I have is a CLK55 AMG 2003 model. It is not show car but I simply wanted to dress up the engine. The engine cover looks particularly tired and I thought perhaps I could powder coat the engine cover.

However, I have heard that some engines have been damaged by powder coating, hence, the question if this work would be suitable for this particular engine cover.

I would be grateful for any suggestions and advice.

Many thanks again

megacrazy

Go ahead and powder coat there should be no issues. That being said....purple? Hmmm.

400HP55

I would not even think about powder coating unless you can strip the underside and also in the breathers. If you get a small amount of sand inside your engine your cylinder walls are going to get chewed up. I saw it happen.

megacrazy

Nobody powdercoats the underside. It's masked off along with any breathers etc.

DRBC43AMG

Some heat resistant exhaust paint works well. I did my M113 covers 2 years ago in satin black and they still look perfect