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Does anybody know how people paint words (hmt in this picture) on their intercoolers??? Can you just mask it off and get a good edge like that??? Sorry if that is your car and i didnt give you credit, I found the picture on cincystreetscene.com, and didnt know whos car it is.

https://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e...87/fmic8jo.jpg

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yes.. but spray it lightly

or use a pernamnemennemnnmennt marker :P

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Mask it or use a template, a cardboard cutout will work fine too.

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make your own stencil and use flat black

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cool thanks alot fellas, thats what i figured but i wasnt sure

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So what will it say?

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you're from ----------in cincinnati? im up in fairborn.

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mask the text and paint the whole ic flat black :S

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painting aluminum = reduces cooling effect.

dark colors don't shed heat as well either, same thing with a black car in the sun.

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its not going to make more than say a .05% difference if you paint the thing a light coat of flat black...

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dyno un-painted, then dyno painted. tell me if it's .05%...

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have you dynoed to know for sure? or did you read it online? ::)

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if he is going to write somthing on his intercooler and asking about how to do that simple stuff (no offense to that guy) but he probly aint goin for a 9 sec car. so no big deal in my opinion. im gonna do it just to see who i can make believe i dont have a turbo. some stupid ricer kids hopfully. it will be good for a laugh. oh and i am gonna paint it all black i forgot to add.

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I am most likely going to paint mine completely black, I'm not really going to be building a drag car here, it will be a daily driven beater, so I can finally garage my evo and stop putting so many miles on it. I was just curious if people masked those lines to get them straight, and couldn't really think of what I would put on my intercooler anyways. Thanks for all the input guys.

Yeah, Im actually about 15 mins outside Cincy, a little shithole river town called New Roach-mond (richmond)

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??? I think you've got your optical and thermal dynamics confused

So..in a dark room, black people stay warmer?

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no, you can still smell them

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Kind of hard to dyno the effects of an intercooler anyway, seems how the car isn't moving.

yeah, yeah, there's fans, but still It's not quite the same.

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yeah that is a little off.

Painting the intercooler isn't gonna affect it too much.

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I painted my intercooler and lost 67 whp :P

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I painted mine and got herpes. Wait, that was cause i banged that nasty bitch after i painted it...nevermind.

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it still effects it. that's all im saying. i never claimed youd looz h00j hp y0 from it

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Black attracts light not heat, get your ---- straight. heat is the result of black attracting light, but having a silver intercooler or a black intercooler makes no significant difference when air is passing between the fins at 60mph

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Since you are still compressor limited, never at any point IC efficiency limited, you looz z3r0 hp y0 from it.

I'm flat blacking my ---- because I'd like to keep my car from being stolen, thanks. Stealth vs hp per psi volumetric efficiency LIES - there can be only one.

You mean a layer of crap acting as an insulator has no effect on heat exchanger efficiency? That's nice.

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i remember we had a post about this in like 2002 or some ----. like if someone parked in the sun and the intercooler soaked up the heat cuz the black would attact it. blah blah blah.

Detonation or stealthmode?

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i never ------- said the intercooler was a cold source, get your ---- straight. come back when you learn to read fuckwad :S

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Flat black will radiate heat better than a shiny colour will. It will also take up more radiated heat from other radiating sources. A black car will heat up faster in the sun but it will also cool down faster once in the shade.

Most heat sinks for passive cooling are aluminized flat black for that reason. It doesn't matter as much if you have airflow though.