Well, I port/polished and gasket matched my stock exhaust manifold and turbo exhaust housing (10.5 hotside). I also had a Helix O2 housing that needed a bit of "cleaning up" (portmatching, smoothing out some sharp edges, etc) and had all three components as well as the top heat shield ceramic coated satin black at www.performancecoatings.com. I am AMAZED, the quality of work was outstanding and it looks really good, not to mention I am really shootin for a stock appearance as much as possible (no blingage under the hood for me if at all possible). I installed everything and started the car. Ran it down the street a bit and immediately noticed how much faster spool up is. I'm not sure if it's because my car was outta commision for 2 weeks while I did the porting/polishing and sent to the coaters and I forgot how the car drove or if it really is that much stronger, but this car feels alot more powerful. Well, I also did the O2 housing upgrade, so that may have helped some.

Anyway, after driving around for a day or so, I noticed my EG temps are lower by almost 200 degrees at similar loads/speeds as compared to before....

Close to the best $200 I spent so far...

 

Hello Did they cost the inside of these parts also? Or only the exterior

 

yes, they did the interior as well, I wish I had a digital camera, the work was excellent...

 

I have this being done at Buschur as we speak - 10.5 turbine/o2/mani (all stock). Ported/coated and gasket-matched. I will definitely take pics of the parts when they arrive and after they are installed, then provide my butt dyno thoughts followed by actual dyno results.

 

I also noticed, after even hard drivin, I can put my hand about a half an inch away from the heat shield and it only feels warm to slightly hot...

 

What color are your exhaust pieces? I know you got the shield coated black, but what about the actual exhaust parts?

 

everything was done in the same flat/sastin black...it looks pretty nice too as it gets rid of that rusted look of the manifold. I was gonna have Buschur do it, but they would only do it in the silver color. I wanted to keep it lookin stock as possible so even tho performance was #1 priority, I also was picky about color choice...

 

Is there anything on Bushur's site about coatings? I'm not seeing it. Curious as to what they charge...

 

https://secure.buschurracing.com/cat...c9dd5116f14daa

https://secure.buschurracing.com/cat...c9dd5116f14daa

But these prices are for both coated AND ported...but I'm sure they could just coat it if you've done your own porting...

 

I have used Jet-Hot for hi temp coatings with good results

http://www.jet-hot.com/

 

One point to mention is that the prices have been LOWERED.

It is now $175 total for porting and coating, because Dave found a cheaper place to do the coating, I believe. The individual prices are $100 and $75, but I can't remember which is which. Either Dave, Jarrod, or both of them explained this in another thread somewhere.

Btw, my 10.5 hotside/o2/mani all arrived yesterday and are on the way back to me today. Talk about great turnaround!