My new Turbo with the PPI treatment!
1200 deg paint is no where near enough to withstand a hotside. They get in excess of 1600 at times.
Umm, maybe I wasn't clear enough. My hotside, exhaust manifold and 02 housing are Swain coated. I live in California, so white= no mas. Cops would see it in a second. So I applied the 1200 degree paint OVER the Swain coating. Make sense? Now everything is black instead of blindingly beautiful white 
Um I think most people are buying them because they are an excellent turbo, not because they are stealth. If anything, its a "polished" stock turbo compressor housing... which is it 
, not because its not shiny and blinggin' like Lil Wayne 
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Last edited by SickSilverNLow; May 18, 2007 at 04:25 PM.
well.....i was not saying its not an excellent turbo bro...i just said its stealthy cause it uses a stock evo 9 turbo and most V8 guys in my area are too pu$$y to race cars with bigger turbos, so i try to keep it stealth to beat em and make some money but whatever. I too am buying to turbo for its 10s capabilities and great spool up , not because its not shiny and blinggin' like Lil Wayne .
, not because its not shiny and blinggin' like Lil Wayne .I know but you said it defeats the purpose and well to 99.9% of us, how the turbo looks, really doesnt matter, its more how it performs. You can polish a stock turbo so you can still tell people its stock.
Well you can count me in that 99.9% of people who don't care how the turbo looks like but how it performs bro...but you gotta understand, i live in a hick town and everyone drive V8 or something thats not import so when they see a shiny turbo they automaticall thinks its aftermarket and got tons of power and don't wanna race for money, which is why i said it defeats the purpose of stealth. Sorry about not explaining a bit more but i guess i think that way cause where i live
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Well you can count me in that 99.9% of people who don't care how the turbo looks like but how it performs bro...but you gotta understand, i live in a hick town and everyone drive V8 or something thats not import so when they see a shiny turbo they automaticall thinks its aftermarket and got tons of power and don't wanna race for money, which is why i said it defeats the purpose of stealth. Sorry about not explaining a bit more but i guess i think that way cause where i live .
.Nah man I gotcha, it does depend where you live. Everyone has a different perspective.
• Some cops have pyrometers with them and "gun" people's cats to make sure they're hot enough (people love to make test pipes look like catalytic converters here in SoCal
• ANything that looks out of olace is grounds for a fix-it ticket, at the very least. For example, I replaced a black hose with a silver one in my old Camry and they almost didn't approve my car at registration (visual inspection) because of it.
Because of this, every part I have on the car is black or stock looking. Samco pipes will have no Samco logo. Got a Forge RS valve in black. IC piping is black. Intercooler has Swain Tech heat-emitting coating on it (black). Race cat will have a heat shield mounted over it (it kinda looks like the Rndom Tech unit. You get the idea
I will be posting pics of all my stuff soon and then post dyno results when I have them as my build gets closer to being done.
