Powder coating

[Heo]

What is your experience with Powdercoating?
I was at a friends place and he make A-arms
for snowmobiles.He had just recieved a load
of A-arms back from Powdercoating.
And the colour was an exact match with the
semi gloss thats in the engine compartment
They can take thing as big as the Galaxie inner
fenders, so im thinking if i should powdercoate
all that im able to bolt of from the car,
Innerfenders, radiator suport,a-arms spindles
etc,etc.

[mbrunson427]

I have a friend that runs a motorcycle shop that recently bought his own powder coating setup. He was tired of waiting on people and decided to do it himself. He kind of showed me some lessons learned, so here's what I know:

The coating isn't just defined by the powder and electrical charge, the gun also has a lot to do with it. He bought a very expensive gun and the end product is very obviously different. It doesn't have all that orange peel in it. He can powder coat motorcycle tanks and it looks like a professional two stage paint job. Not quite sure how you seek someone out that has invested in their equipment like this, but if you can find someone with a quality powder coating gun, you'll be very happy.

I always get the chassis parts done in Cardinal powder coat color "BK02". It's 40% gloss. Has worked out real well so far.

Here's the rear end housing he just did.
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Also got some color matched powder and have him do my 15" wheels

[turbohunter]

Yup they can do lotsa bigger stuff. Had the inner s of my 74 powder coated. I went for a hammer tone look instead of black.

[Drew Pojedinec]

I think it's great on hard metal parts.
I've seen it on some valve covers and intakes where it looked really good as well.
I've seen it on carburetors and it looks like someone dropped melting plastic on it.  A few look pretty good, but I think there is a really great skill to doing it on small detailed parts.

[Heo]

The company that coat the A-arms for him have some
regular production  they run day in and day out.
But they stop the line and do his loads of A-arms
he leave them there in the morning and get them the same night
or next day a few hundred each time so he said  i can send my parts
with his load. And i thought the price was reasonably about 4 dollars
per A-arm for rust protection and topcoat
They had a really nice and smooth surface without that plastic bucket
finish I'm used to on powdercoated parts
li

[BruceS]

I've had a bunch of powder coating done on both of my cars; engine dress items and pulleys, bumper and chassis brackets, sway bars, etc. looks great and holds up well too.