Will it affect the performance of you motor painting an intake manifold? The manifold is chrome, but i have no chrome under the hood so it will look kinda stupid imo. i was wanting to paint it black i have access to a sand blaster and all just wondering if it would affect.
painting it can cause it to trap in more heat, which will make your air flowing into your motor less dense.
less dense air or less air molecules per cyl when firing = less power
just leave it alone, itll look okay eventually, just put in some chrome strut bars and a few chrome fittings and steel braided lines. thatll make it "fit in" more.
Chrome will trap more heat than paint.....theres an old vw saying about the shrouds around the fan and the cooling fins.....somthing like "leave it black if you want to get back or have it chrome and never get home" i dunno somthin like that.
/\ lol . if your streeting it BUT are running without a hood *this is actually legal in some places* i can see black paint causing it to soak up more heat in the sun....thus further heating the air going into cylinders...which in turn = BAD....not like kill your motor bad...just loose some power bad
ok thanks guys i already had him sandblast the chrome so its a nice dull finish now, im gonna see how it looks when i get it back to decide if i want to paint it.
Yes!
You will loose power all over the rpm's and your ecu will start thorwing codes at you from out of no where!! All so don't be surprised if your car all of a sudden breaks down and over heats.
danz needs to post a pic of his intake painted so rainbowfully cheery.
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