i was curious if anyone knows if this is possible? i seen on musclecar that they powder coated primer, but what about as paint? i know they do it to motorcycle frames, so why not a car?

what your input?

 

I saw that too & question the baking heat & the sheetmetal body. Could it really stand up to that heat without any warping occurring? I know the older cars are much thicket steel than our 3rd gen "aluminum" thin sheetmetal, so maybe that is why they could do it to that car on TV?

 

be a pretty damn neat idea IMO...but it would really be nice to know if the cars would take the heat..

 

i dont think the body warping from the heat would be a problem, the bumpers and gfx on the other hand... lol

 

the warping ect would not be the issue I am a powdercoater and have coated some weird things like a hat yes a hat it worked

BUT 400 degrees for 15 to 45 minutes whatever cant handle that needs to be out then once its done it will look good but any imperfection or scrap chip ect you have to start from square on it is very hard to blend or repair powdercoating

there are ways to get powder to stick to not electric items some polymers we will spraypaint a zinc paint that will help the surface charge

 

And a big oven

 

What about body filler? Not gonna have a 100% straight metal body nor 100% straight fiberglass or urethane parts. So.....Can body filler be powder coated? I guess with that zinc spray stuff it could huh?

And yeah.....Where are you gonna find an oven big enough to cook a whole car body?

 

Why not just paint the car?

 

with the zinc spray you are only getting a bond as good as spraypaint too so no bueno and the body has to be perfect you can wet sand powdercoat but you try not to because if you take off to much start over


as for ovens thats not an issue at all most powdercoating places can very easily accommodate a whole car they will do car frames alot so a car is not much more


BTW most fire engines and heavy equipment are powdercoated because they can afford and expect scratches ect and once its no good they just paint over it

 

Evercoat and USC both make a metal filler that can take powder and the cure temp.
There are also low temp cure powders that don't require the 400-450 temperature though, they seem not quite as durable.

 

the low temps cure around 350 and regular powder cures at 375 (substate temp) for 15 min so when the actual part reaches 375 15 min cure you need 400 to get a part to 375 roughly

 

I suppose I should have specified low temp polyester powder which has a 250 cure (substrate temp) @30mins since there are quite a variety of powder types and cure temps/times.

 

A friend of mine had built a roadster a few years back and powder coated all the body panels. It was tough but for some reason had bad orange peel on all of the body panels. I think it was tough to heat large panels well enough to cure the powder coat.