Powder Coating - temperature threshold?

[CVP33]

Jimmy told me about a forum member who powder coated their CAI tube. Just curious as to the temperature threshold that powder coating can withstand. Would I be better off having it anodized? Looking to go red, for obvious reasons.

[Super T]

powdercoat is good for a few hundred degrees... more than your intake tube should see, that's for sure. For looks though, I personally think anodizing is the better choice. Really, you could do either one yourself... craftsman has a powdercoat system that's pretty cheap and anodizing really only requires a lotta electricity, a few chemicals and some dye... there are how-to's on the internet.

[AZRC]

A true powdercoating is usually baked on the material you are trying to coat. That is why you can't powdercoat plastic. I would think it would be good for the CAI tube. I had some aluminum wheels powdercoated and never had any problems with the heat from the brakes/rotors, and they got fairly hot on occasion.. A lot of the strut tower braces you can buy for car to go under the hood are also powdercoated, and I have not seen any with coating problems.

[CVP33]

Great example on the STB. I didn't even think of that. Probably subjected to the same operating temperatures at the CAI. Thanks for the insight.

[Zentenk]

Don't worry about it, at the rate of speed of the motor sucking in air at wide open throttle the air wouldn't have much time to raise in temp anyways.