Do to overwhelming inquiries from different folks we have decided to go ahead & place a pricing menu up for those of you who would like Internal Engine Coating work done. Our coating dept. has been doing coatings for a select few Racers, and for products we develop & manufacture for ourselves, and for other companies as well, for many years. We finally figured we’d give in and take in a limited amount of work from the general public as well.

                                               About Dry Film Lubricants & Thermal Barriers

From Formula One, Top Fuel, and many other forms of racing all the way to NASA, have known the advantages of utilizing these coatings for many, many years. Now it is so affordable to the average driver, racer, rider, that with no “down-sides” to using them, why wouldn’t someone want to take advantage of them.

The typical Dry Film Coating, will give parts that depend on oil lubrication, an extra “slippery” surface, thus lowering friction even more than just with the oil, causing the oil to actually not reach as high a temperature. It is also extremely helpful upon cold start-up`s, incidental intermittent oil starvation, an overheating engine, and so fourth.

We all know that to win, you first have to finish. The more friction that can be removed, the more power you will make, along with making the engine components last longer as well. Reducing friction reduces temperatures, which will add HP in and of itself as well. Parts do and will, last much longer, when coated. We have actually put well over 400 full power dyno runs on a 600 HP engine, that utilized our coatings. The results were that the heat barrier was still working well, but amazingly to people who don’t know coatings well, about 75 % of the coating on the piston skirts was still there! The machining marks from the pistons being manufactured were still as fresh looking as pistons with only a handful of dyno runs, without the coating. When you figure that a good set of racing pistons for a auto V-8 engine may be 5, 6, or 700 dollars, well, why wouldn’t one want to protect them, and, make more HP at the same time. These pistons can be stripped, re-coated, and run again, it just makes common sense to coat them.

Thermal Barriers, allow heat to be radiated from parts in which the hotter the part, the more prone to failure it is, and the less HP the engine will make. Therefore being able to control heat absorption in a precisely controlled, calculated manner, is what any professional engine builder wants. Insulating certain areas, to keep the fuel-air charge cooler, really helps the HP numbers. Many engine “meltdowns “ from fuel starvation etc., have even been avoided.

Contrary to what some may think, we want combustion temperatures to be high. What we don’t want is detonation or pre-ignition. Therefore the way to obtain the best HP, concerning temperature, is to keep the charge as cool as possible, right to the point of the precisely timed ignition. With a good “cool” fuel/air charge you have much more liberty to set the timing curve, (or in some cases full advance all the time, as many mag. ignited engines use) to where the engine runs the best, period. Therefore the goal  is to get the fuel/air charge into the combustion chamber as cool as possible, get the properly controlled hot combustion, then get the resulting heat out of the engine as quick as possible, without letting it be absorbed up into the cylinder head, from the chambers & port walls. You can even keep the charge cooler upon entering, buy coating the intake port, along w/doing the exhaust side, keeping the exhaust heat from freely being absorbed by the Cyl. Head. There are several parts some coating companies do, that we don’t.  This is due to the fact that it is actually counter productive to do certain parts with these type coatings. We only do what we have experimented with ourselves, on the dyno, and racetrack, & have proven to be well worth the effort.                        

We have been doing these coatings many years, on products we manufacture, our own Race Engine Components, along with coating for other engine builders, and in several other areas as well. There are many other perfect area’s for the coatings such as areas that need lubrication, and protection, that if oil or grease is used will attract to much dirt or other debris, causing even more problems. The Dry Film Coating works fantastic in these area's.

On the left you can see a Buell head. It has our light colors heat barrier on it. The aluminum looking heat barrier can be used where the parts must look like aluminum or a "steel" color shade. The Pro-Gold is a little more expensive but is also offers a couple more hundred degrees higher protection. It is good till almost 2000 deg. fht. We must be sure when doing a head, whether we are doing the exhaust ports or not, that no coating winds up on the valve seat in the head.  

See all the new info on the importance of a cool air/fuel charge at the bottom of this page!

All pricing is for all parts coming in 100% disassembled and "basically clean".  

Min. Charge for all coating wk is 75. 

All Heat Barrier pricing is for our Pro Gold Type coating.  We now have a lower temp type to use where higher heat could be harmful to the component.

Question?, send us an e-mail & ask info@performance-design.net