Thermal Dispersion coating for intercooler

johnghini · 06-09-2011, 10:12 AM

Dropped off some parts for ceramic coating and I saw a customers stock 930 inter-cooler being prepped. The shop said they were applying a TD coating to it. Depending on the application, the coating supposedly reduces internal temperatures 12-60 degrees. I was told it works exceptionally well on radiators but this shop says they do a lot of race-application parts particularly inter-coolers. It's not a black anodizing process...it's similar to the ceramic coating process I guess. Anyone had real world experience with this?

E-man930 · 06-09-2011, 12:50 PM

sounds interesting - but I doubt you'll set any real worl advantage on a street car...

zeb930 · 06-11-2011, 01:39 PM

Anything that makes a 930 run cooler cant be a bad thing right..

+ its durable, lightweight

Got Techline TD coating on my IC.

johnghini · 06-13-2011, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by zeb930

Anything that makes a 930 run cooler cant be a bad thing right..

+ its durable, lightweight

Got Techline TD coating on my IC.

Any thoughts on whether it's worth doing? At the shop I am going to, they are applying this to a ton of air-cooled motorcycle cylinder heads. There is a local flat-track guy that I met there that swears by it. It's pretty reasonable and looks fantastic...just don't want to pull the trigger if it is not a worthwhile modification.

E-man930 · 06-13-2011, 08:02 PM

Heads are totally different aplication then an intercooler. What you gain on the heads is marginally more even heating and cooling, which has some positive benefits to the mechanical bits and pieces moving about inside when their base is a tiny bit more uniform in dimensions that could change wear characteristics if slightly uneven. On an intercooler for a street car you would not see any differnce in performance. On an intercooler for a race car you may see fractional improvement before heatsoak sets in...

zeb930 · 06-14-2011, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by johnghini

Any thoughts on whether it's worth doing? At the shop I am going to, they are applying this to a ton of air-cooled motorcycle cylinder heads. There is a local flat-track guy that I met there that swears by it. It's pretty reasonable and looks fantastic...just don't want to pull the trigger if it is not a worthwhile modification.

I like anything that makes the air cooler. One example is I have a cold-air intake that draws ambient air instead of warmer enginebay air.

And when I wanted my IC black it was an easy choice to have it coated with thermal disperant coating because its 10-20% more disperant than plain aluminium and even more so when compared to paint. Maybe it helps 1 degree maybe 10? The important thing is that it helps.