Powdercoating
 

Guys just wondering iv seen alot of builders Powdercoat almost the entire car other than the body! undercarriage/dash frame/interior floors/trunk etc
Is this an overkill or a good thing to do? :)

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Suspension parts and subframes are powdercoated often to resist chipping and scratching. The only parts you can powdercoat are ones that can be baked, hence you would never see body panels and floors done.

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holy overkill......... thats kewl

Yes, it is a bit overkill, but I like it.

If I'm not mistaken, Troy has done powdercoat on the underside of a few of his builds as well.

Bill -
Is there actually an oven big enough to bake that whole car ?

Yes, My cousin had his boat trailer done....

I have thought about having my roll bar done, it's pretty tight to the body so I thought it would be easier to do than paint and I also thought it might hold up better.

Yeah, Troy did quite a bit on Sick Fish.

There is an oven here in OKC big enough to park a railroad car in. Has a conveyor system in it for mass parts powdercoating.

Powdercoating is great for me because on all those items that do not get body worked or any prep besides sandblasting, it is cheaper to powdercoat than to paint and is very durable and looks good.

Mike

All you need is a big enough oven. There are a ton of powdercoaters out there but not many that have a big enough oven to do a car, but they are out there.

Troy did the interior and undercarrage of Sick Fish.

I've got an oven big enough here at work that could easily accomodate 3 large (think Chevy B-body) cars. Unfortunately we aren't in the powdercoating business... at least during weekdays. ;)

That being said I would much rather e-coat a car than powdercoat. E-coating gets EVERYWHERE because it's dipped.

I'd also be worried about possible warping the body because of the 400F or so cure temps...

Yep. Sick Fish was powder coated (the whole unibody).
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I am looking into Electrostatic coating on my project vs. Powder.

Some of the benifits is that it doesn't require an oven.

They can do it on site.

Almost the exact same strength as powder.

Marty, how does that work if there's no oven?

Scott, it works on the same premise as powder coating but actual paint comes out of the gun.

You get much less waste and better coverage. A company I used to work for had a set up. It was pretty trick.

And it has almost the same strength/durability as powdercoating?

My guess would be that it would depend on the material being applied, as you could spray just about anything that would flow through the gun.

Here's a link that I found.

http://metalpainters.com/theelectrostaticprocess/

I am going to his shop on Friday of this week. I will try to get as much info as possible.

One of the other benifits according to the guy i was talking with is you can apply it over bodywork.

They wouldnt put the temp that high to warp the body surely??

One of my friends told me about that stuff. I guess they had some large file cabinets done at his work. He said that it was not a powder. It was a wet paint that was atracted to the electrical charge on the metal file cabinets. They painted them right in the office without getting paint on anything else.

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The put a negative charge on the metal being painted and the the paint gets a positve charge. So the paint attracts to what is being painted. The same way a refrigirator gets painted.