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Okay, I know I'm an oddball for asking this one, but I am trying to build a "sleeper" (for those of you youngins, that's an old-fart term for a car with lotsa balls without the look of havin' 'em!!!). I can't accomplish this with a great, big aluminum i/c, now can I?
I've been told by a couple of folks that I shouldn't paint the i/c, as the paint will "insulate" the cooling fins and make it less efficient. This makes sense to me, but my question is just how much will a l i g h t dusting of flat black paint make for heat transfer? I've even thought of maybe taking one of them foam 6" wide rollers, emptying a bunch of flat black paint from a spraycan in a tray, and just rolling the front edge to get rid of that shine.
Whadaya'll think?
I've been told by a couple of folks that I shouldn't paint the i/c, as the paint will "insulate" the cooling fins and make it less efficient. This makes sense to me, but my question is just how much will a l i g h t dusting of flat black paint make for heat transfer? I've even thought of maybe taking one of them foam 6" wide rollers, emptying a bunch of flat black paint from a spraycan in a tray, and just rolling the front edge to get rid of that shine.
Whadaya'll think?