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Dec 18, 2022 | 08:50 AM

275Camaro

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Opinions On Heat Shielding

What does everyone think about heat shielding on manifolds or headers. Will it change under hood temps very much? Any significant HP gains? Is it worth spending a few hundred for coatings or shields?

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Dec 18, 2022 | 12:25 PM

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Not needed for stock manifolds. Tubular I'd a different story. Plenty wrap them. Otherwise turbo blanket and wrap the hot side and call it a day.

Dec 19, 2022 | 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by ddnspider

Not needed for stock manifolds. Tubular I'd a different story. Plenty wrap them. Otherwise turbo blanket and wrap the hot side and call it a day.

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Wrap the pipes, leave the cast pieces bare or paint them, turbo blanket is a must.
You will be amazed how much of a difference it will make in cutting down heat soak under the hood.

Dec 19, 2022 | 11:04 AM

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I agree with everyone here. I wrap the cast manifolds too but it isnt really necessary I just like the way the lava wrap makes it all look. It hides my roll of dimes, nickels and filled holes possible pennies and stuff welds too. Lol.

Dec 19, 2022 | 11:26 AM

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I'm running a turbo blanket and the exhaust is DEI wrapped.

Dec 22, 2022 | 09:38 AM

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I usually wrap everything hot, I even wrap the cold side if its where the radiator can blow hot air on it. Its more about not melting stuff around it. This time I tried those expensive coatings, I dont think they worked better than wrap, so I wrapped them.
Mainly just love picking fiberglass or whatever out of my hands when working around the stuff, lol.