I spent a day pulling my downpipe and turbocharger off of my car. It wasn't fun only because I drive the thing pretty hard and use anti-lag a fair amount, so everything is very thoroughly heated and stuck. It took about an hour to work the exhaust housing off using a vice and rubber mallet but I got it off without damaging anything, which is nice I did my downpipe and housing in TechLine Black Satin 2000F ceramic coating.

Prep work entails: out gassing parts, bead blasting the parts perfectly clean (scale and rust removed), aluminum oxide blasting to open pores on metal surface, and then finally acetone bath before I spray the ceramic. Once sprayed I let it air dry for about 20 minutes then moved it to the over (note: commercial oven don't try this in your house oven or even a house oven not in the house...) to the oven at 800F for one hour. The housing was in for 800F at 1.25 hr - 1.5 hr given its mass. Anyway, pics:

Before:



After:



Should look something like:



When done I need to clean my compressor housing but I am thinking of redoing it in wrinkle black. I dunno!

 

Good work, much improved. You're all about cleanliness.

 

Totally!

 

holy ---- thats a ------- sweet computer in teh backroundz

wrinkle black on the charge might look ugly, i'd just polish it !!

 

I'd leave it just like that, definately don't paint the compressor housing in black.

 

your coolant lines are empty... gonna cook that bitch!

 

That looks so much better. I don't know how it'll hold up but I just painted my turbine housing with a few coats of high temp BBQ paint before I installed it. Of course I had a new one that didn't have years of rust to remove.

 

lmao have you driven your car will the air inlet and exhaust outlet right next to eachtoher??

ive had serious problems in the past sucking in exhaust fumes making the car run like ----

 

offtopic, but what is your oil line feed coming off of?