These points have me juggling on what to do.
Fatcat
Nelly paid $500 for almost everything. May I reccommend if working on a budget it could be cheaper by sandblasting or stripping yourself and only powdercoating the frame and upper roll cage. The suspension and stuff comes off easy enough. Weekend project to put fresh paint on when it gets scuffed up. The frame is a serious project.
But hoser makes some good points
You going to ride this thing or look at it, you painting to protect the frame from rust or is this a ego stroking project? go powder coat it has all the benefits like you will never win any Pilot Odyssey custom paint shows with it, how you going to match it or touch up when its damaged, your never going to recover the money you spent on it.
I would say its more of a mental coating than anything, ever seen my Pilot its a mixture of factory paint and rattle can touch up I spent the powder coat money on gas for riding and actually went riding
Some fool powder coated the frame of my TRX250R caused more problems than its ever going to be worth need to go back and chisel off all the paint where any bolts contact so they will stay tight the jackass even painted the inside of the swing arm where the bearing holder goes so the chain would never stay tight, looks good setting their with all the problems tho haha
one of these days I am going to strip that whole quad down and sand blast all that cheap ass paint off and repaint it with rattle can something that works and is problem free I will NEVER buy another ATV someone has had powder coated lesson learned wasted about 2 full days of my life dealing with the problems it has caused on that quad 2 days I will never get back
don't forget to splash on some carbon fiber and a few monster energy stickers lol
And the poll is really helping!