Anyone heard of coating the inside block with Glyptal?

[Dammitboy]

As asked, anyone done or heard of this? Was reading it was an old school hot rod trick to seal the cast iron pores and aid in oil run off.

Sounds cool but concerned with it flaking off down the road.

What'dya think?

[s13lawnornament]

I have herd of it,but don't know anything about it.The thought of it flaking later on and cloging up the oiling system scares me. Especially after putting the the money into rebuilding it once already.

[AZhitman]

Not sure if that's the name of the product, but my block was treated to shed oil when I had my machine work done...

Watched the "demo" of how it works, pretty damn cool.

[k20z1]

yea i have heard of that, it was thought to be a cool thing and did serve a purpose, but you are right when thinking it will flake off and ruin things later on... a good coating to do now-a-days is to have your combustion chamber and exhaust ports ceramic coated. that helps with cooling and detonation, and it keeps the heat inside the combustion chamber where it belongs and doesnt let it radiate to the head and intake mani...i have seen it on a 22-r toyota motor, and it put down serious numbers!! its a good thing to look into...
Modified by k20z1 at 6:32 PM 10/17/2006

[Xero]

flaking probably won't happen since these coatings should be ceramic based, therefor baked on. If the surface is properly blasted and cleaned, there shouldn't be any problems. Any sort of performance coatings place would be able to put an oil shedding coating on the block. They can also put the coating in the head, and various other places, to get it to go back to the pan faster, which gets the heat out of the system faster too.

and like k20z1 said, you can coat damn near everything now. Your stock KA pistons have a ceramic coating on them, but you can also coat exhaust ports and combustion chambers, inside and outside of exhaust headers, valves, bearings can be coated with anti-friction coatings. Can't really coat the intake ports due to fuel atomization, but just about everything else is capable of it.

Just costs money

This is a place local to me, I haven't had any work done, but it's where I'd go if I was to do it. http://www.performancecoatings.com/

[Dammitboy]

Slowly making progress on my KAT project. Pic of timing cover with Glyptal.





Kevin

[WDRacing]

Once the oil has done its job, getting it back to the pan as fast as possible is always a good thing. Oil shedders work very well. I haven't heard of any flaking issues. If it does flake, the pickup will filter it, or the filter will.

I"m sure it was tested under extreme heat and pressure for flaking and wear.

WD

[Dammitboy]

My thoughts exactly regarding pickup/filter filtration. Read on an old Datsun fourm about a guy whose buddy worked at a division of Bell Avionics. According to this cat, the techs have been coating the inside magnesium transmission housings of their helicopter engines for years, no complaints.

I figure that's good enough for me! I've looked around and have'nt read one glyptal horror story yet.

Kevin