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Old 07-06-2018, 07:01 PM
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So I called a local powder coating company to ask how much to powder coat my tips....they asked for what kind of car, so I told them it’s for a 2015 Porsche Carrera S and got a quote for $350.

Then I called back a week later and told them it was for a Toyota...$150.

Both were for dual tips and 2 of each.

So my tips are being powder coated for $150. I just showed up with tips in hand....no car.

That’s ‘merica for ya!
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Old 07-06-2018, 07:09 PM
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Haha wow!! Anytime I call for some sort of service and they ask me what kind of car I know that I'm in trouble. Sometimes I ask why it matters.
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Cheaper than Ferrari tax.
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Originally Posted by SoCal C2S

So my tips are being powder coated for $150. I just showed up with tips in hand....no car.
Well done...
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$150 is still high
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If you mentioned a Yugo, they would have handed you a spray can.
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Cheaper than Ferrari tax.
I dunno, I picked up the Ferrari OEM rims I wanted for $1300, still haven’t changed out the 911 rims I want because they’re all like $3k+.

Edit: actually they only cost me like $100 once I sold off the ones that were on there and paid shipping.
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I recently retired my powdercoating business to just have one job, but I would have charged 40 for the pair. Its a very simple job. I did mine on my 991, but I traded it in on a GT4 with black tips. (I still coat for myself!)
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These tips get VERY HOT. Most powder coating fails. Need to get them CERAMIC COATED. That finish has a much higher heat tolerance.
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I recently retired my powdercoating business to just have one job, but I would have charged 40 for the pair. Its a very simple job. I did mine on my 991, but I traded it in on a GT4 with black tips. (I still coat for myself!)
But this Kalifornia where we use tree friendly coatings.....
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These tips get VERY HOT. Most powder coating fails. Need to get them CERAMIC COATED. That finish has a much higher heat tolerance.
No they don't. Their is an air gap around the core, and at that point the exhaust isn't that hot anymore anyway. Powdercoat cures at 400 degrees. I had them on for 9 months and they looked freshly coated when I traded the car in.
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You really have to take a close look. I had a set that failed. These tips get hotter than 400°.

The tips are very close to the muffler which is very close to the engine. Lots of heat compared to a normal front engine car.
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If you mentioned a Yugo, they would have handed you a spray can.
Naa, Yugo gets an old can of house paint and a disposable brush. Spray paint is for VWs and rat rods.
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You really have to take a close look. I had a set that failed. These tips get hotter than 400°.

The tips are very close to the muffler which is very close to the engine. Lots of heat compared to a normal front engine car.
they weren't done properly then. In 14 years of powdercoating, specializing in brake calipers with over 3500 sets of brakes done, I never had any come back with the coating failed.
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when it gets real hot, it melts. This is my racecar after a particularly hard session at Barber. You can see that the powdercoat on the wheel got extremely hot (brakes were 600 according to my heat gun) and it slung off the wheel onto the brake rotor.
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