Can you heat wrap coated headers?
07-07-2012, 10:50 AM
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Can you heat wrap coated headers? I've got a front mount gt45 turbo kit coated in jet hot black 2000 degree and it's not cutting it..getting hot as hell in the Engine bay. Can I wrap them in lava rock wrap to help?
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07-07-2012, 12:11 PM
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I had the same issue except my coating is swaintech which I believe to be slightly better than jethot, but even then it wasn't cutting it. I wrapped them with titanium wrap from dei. I believe that is the "lava rock" type you are referring to. So far so good. Can't say my pipes are goin to hold up over time, but neither would my wiring harness hol up to the heat of the pipes.
07-07-2012, 06:28 PM
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You came to the same realization I did. Either have some of the pipe go bad from trap moisture or start melting various components and wire harnesses. Pick the less of the two evils and it just semed to make sense to wrap the pipes to keep under hood temps down instead of trying to heat shield everything.
07-07-2012, 07:30 PM
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By the time the pipes go bad I'll probably have a new setup anyways in a few years. Oh well. I've got a badass vertical griffin radiator with 2 spal pullers and on hot days my temps go up anyways robbing power and making my **** spool slower..I wish I never even got them coated and wrapped them in the first place
