Thread: Header Wraps

thermal coating also is nice for appearence purposes.

Thanks



Why Just coating it sir?



Well I bought the black header wrap for that reason

Well I bought the black header wrap for that reason [/QUOTE]

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Me <3 Black

I don't want to go through the hassle of taking the header off but I think I'll have to

yea that is the only part that sucks, removing the header...i want to do some either coating or wrapping, however my setup is so complex getting the turbo and manifold and all that off will require the removing of the radiator and i havent felt like making that venture yet....altho i know it would probably benifit my turbo setup with coarting the downpipe,exhaust housing and manifold, but not up to the work involved yet

Lazyness owns us...

I had my peakboost turbo manifold coated with black 2000* cermaic coating, and it did not hold it heat as well as the thermotec copper stuff on my 3" DP.

If you do coat go with Swaintech white lightning on the exh. But wrap is more then good enough.

For the I/C piping the foil heat blocking wrap works better then header wrap, since header wrap keeps heat in. The foil looking stuff reflects the radiant heat. I had it allover my firewall in my s13, on the brake resevoir and coolant tank and it works great.

The header wrap on my dp kept my ass form burning under the car too and the heat shield on the firewall did great to keep the heat out of the cabin since I had no carpet or anything, just metal.

Wrap works hands down no questions. So does heat shield

On a turbo app it is great, the way to bump efficiency is to make the in/ex temp ratio greater. The cooler in and hotter out is the trick. Anything to help achieve that makes more efficient use of all your mods, not to mention electronics hate heat, so lower under hood temp is 2 fold. Lower intake temps and longer life on the electronics.