thermo wrap

[slick]

what about the bottom half before it exits the engine bay?

[zipcreature]

Wrapping your header just keeps the heat inside the header, which is good for a turbo exhaust manifold because you want the extra pressure from the heat to spin the turbine, but why would you want to keep heat IN your NA exhaust?
The reason why we have ceramic coatings is to keep the header COOL.

-=DaddyC=-

[93twodoorLX]

well for those of us that dont have a couple hundred or thousand dollars to blow on a turbo kit, some of us look for ways to get every little bit possible out of our engines, as we ALL know heat soak kills HP, and even though people claim that ceramic coating is all that and a bag of chips it honestly does nothing drastic about radiant heat. I personally decided to go this route because my radiant under hood temps were hot as nuts i could cook eggs on my intake manifold and pipe. I found the header wrap and thought why the hell not and WOW after an all day drive last summer i got out after letting it sit for a little bit idling and i grabbed the intake manifold. and surprise, i didnt have tears of pain from my ridiculously hot IM it was significantly cooler then i tapped the header and to my surprise...my finger prints werent melted off from heat.

BOTTOM LINE: Heat under hood = bad / hot intake temps = bad

and to answer the previous question i wrapped the entire top half of the header and nothing else i wrapped it from the 4 to 2 section but left the 2 to 1 pipe exposed.

-sean

[KeeleDesign]

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BOTTOM LINE: Heat under hood = bad / hot intake temps = bad

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agreed

[samuri88]

well for those of us that dont have a couple hundred or thousand dollars to blow on a turbo kit, some of us look for ways to get every little bit possible out of our engines, as we ALL know heat soak kills HP, and even though people claim that ceramic coating is all that and a bag of chips it honestly does nothing drastic about radiant heat. I personally decided to go this route because my radiant under hood temps were hot as nuts i could cook eggs on my intake manifold and pipe. I found the header wrap and thought why the hell not and WOW after an all day drive last
summer i got out after letting it sit for a little bit idling and i grabbed the intake manifold. and surprise, i didnt have tears of pain from my ridiculously hot IM it was significantly cooler then i tapped the header and to my surprise...my finger prints werent melted off from heat.

BOTTOM LINE: Heat under hood = bad / hot intake temps = bad


-sean

thanks im just goin aheah and goin to get them.

[ChIoVnIdCa]

Wrapping your header just keeps the heat inside the header, which is good for a turbo exhaust manifold because you want the extra pressure from the heat to spin the turbine, but why would you want to keep heat IN your NA exhaust?
The reason why we have ceramic coatings is to keep the header COOL.

-=DaddyC=-

[tuner2be]

im not sure if this is accurate but what the hell...

http://www.centuryperformance.com/heatwraps.asp

[cb7wagonPL]

i read that before i wrapped my header. the guys posts some interesting points but mostly talks about NASCAR or full race applications not a daily driver that doesnt rev to 10K all the time. I had my wrap on my header for a month now and i love it