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  1. fastmax

    Ceramic coating vs. Polishing

    Yeah, there's an interesting caviat here --- any coating on an internal engin part --- piston, valves inside headers etc. --- better stay on the part in a turbocharged application. Small flakes of misc. trash hittint a turbine impeller can do some significant damage when the turbine is spinning...
  2. fastmax

    Ceramic coating vs. Polishing

    I've used the Techline on my current setup, external components only, headers, downpipe etc --- The car is a twin turbo Mitsu 3000gt. Fairly cheap and easy to apply, however, it did burn off of the turbine housings --- maybe an application problem, improper prep for example. Or maybe it just...
  3. fastmax

    Ceramic coating vs. Polishing

    Polishing CC's or pistons is going to provide short term benefits at best --- as mentioned it only takes a few miles to build up a coating that would obscure your polishing job. Why the adversion to coatings --- I was of the impression they were effective if properly done [ Swain seems to be a...
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