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Old 02-21-2011, 02:17 PM
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Would you guys recommend using one? and where is the best place to purchase one.....
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Ive been recommended an ebay one, from a swedish guy? or norweigen or something.

I was told not to use forcedinductions....
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link for ebay one?
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There is a place in texas, PTP that sells turbo blankets. It cut my spool time a half second on the race car which is a pretty good amount. quality product that a decent price.
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I use lava wrapped ones,..or I will be using them on my car. Ran another off brand for a while, we run the lava ones on the GTO,...using them on the vette soon. racepartsolutions is where I got mine from. They also carry other styles. Nick yoskin has some crazy looking heat sheilds on his vette builds... looks spacy...

...also have the turbos coated as well..with blankets.
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I bought one from Horsepowerfreaks that looks pretty nice. Haven't ran it yet, but I think it was about $120

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I used one from forcedinductions.. No problems with it
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got it from ptp hopefully itll fit my pt88 just fine
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ill be ordering a ptp here shortly as well

look very nice for the price
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Originally Posted by Phil99vette
There is a place in texas, PTP that sells turbo blankets. It cut my spool time a half second on the race car which is a pretty good amount.
how does it do that? by keeping the heat in the turbo?
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I may be ordering one from PTP here real soon.
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Originally Posted by Phil99vette
There is a place in texas, PTP that sells turbo blankets. It cut my spool time a half second on the race car which is a pretty good amount. quality product that a decent price.
i have one of there blankets. i dont have any complaints.
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ptp also nice piece
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I use the PTP blankets on my turbos. It keeps the heat where it should be, in the turbo. It also helped my spool time. Worth getting one for sure.
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I'm as cheap as they come but I definitely know that the blankets work. I just made my own out of a blanket kit. If you take you're time they don't look too bad.

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for the guys that have the ptp's, any guess on approximately how thick they are? i have about 1" of spacer between my turbine housing and my radiator and want to make sure it will fit
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I actually looked for it after my post and couldnt come up with it. Looks like PTP is a solid piece tho.
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Originally Posted by Phil99vette
There is a place in texas, PTP that sells turbo blankets. It cut my spool time a half second on the race car which is a pretty good amount. quality product that a decent price.
Austin, 512 area code is a dead givaway
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DEI TITANIUM TURBO SHIELD / BLANKET! That **** is ridiculous. Compared to before temps and performance/spool up is night and day and I only run a 2.0L!

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I ggot my ptp in and it looks very nice i hope Squeezes around my 88 looks a lil smaller than my old one
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