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Hi everyone, I wanted to get some feedback and any suggestions from you all around painting the Turbo heat shield in the C63s. I have recently had mine professionally painted (candy red and looked amazing!) and literally the same day after driving home from picking it up the paint showed some cracks. I assume from the heat. The business that did the job is an extremely professional outfit and advised me they used paint that withstands 750dgs celsius and uses the same paint when painting brake callipers and engine blocks. We both could only come to the conclusion that the temps the shield get must be higher and due to it being quite thin it. Has anyone out there had any successful experience in painting their shield? If so, was there anything special you needed to do to prep it and/or finish it off and lastly, what paint did you use? Thanks in advance.... look so good in red first cracks appear first cracks appear
Calipers and engine blocks are nothing at all like a thin piece of sheet metal. Regardless of temperature, expansion and deformation of the thin heat shield will crack just about all paint. Engine blocks and calipers have orders of magnitude less deformation. If it were mine I wouldn’t paint the shield.
08-23-2020, 07:10 PM
