NZ951

Ed,

You wont beat summit racing for price!

http://store.summitracing.com/defaul...Search&Ntt=dei

That is for a 50ft section. If you need less you can get lengths from like 10 bucks.

Crazy Eddie

Thanks Andy
Regards
Ed
PS How many feet do I need ?
They carry silicon hose ?

NZ951

It really depends how many pipes you will be wrapping! You can wrap right down to the muffler if you want (a bonus of this is to reduce cabin temps). I got the 50ft part. You will need more than that if you are doing your headers and x-over and down pipe etc. Remember to get it damp before you try and wrap! and get a few hose clips handy.

Laust Pedersen

What makes headers (or any exhaust component) crack is a thermal gradient (temperature difference per distance). I am sure you have seen (pictures of) glowing exhaust systems, but if you look closely the flanges are not or much less glowing (cooler) because of their larger (outside) cooling area relative to the heat source area (hot gasses inside). One way to minimize this difference (thermal gradient) is to coat the inside.

I know some people have cautioned against this, but their concerns of non-stick, non-existent and flaking coating is against my factual experience. I have used HPC in the past, but will use Jet-Hot Coatings in the future (better customer service) and have gotten the explanation that degradation of the normally lower temperature internal coating is an oxidation process at elevated temperatures, but since there is very little oxygen inside the pipe coating actually holds up better than if it was on the outside. It is also protected a little by the typical carbon deposits. The coating is quite thin at ~.002” so if it against my experience should flake off it will do less damage to the turbo turbine than the flakes of carbon that occasionally gets hurled through the system. This btw is the only reason that the turbo manufacturers no longer make the less impact resistant ceramic turbine wheels. Too bad, since they due to their light weight, provided very quick spool-up.

Laust

Crazy Eddie

Humm.. That's food for thought. So would you coat the inside and the outside . Are they able to get inside the pipe ? Is this a like bath or a hot dip process ?
David floyd loves his jet hot coated pieces.
regards
Ed

Crazy Eddie

Andy
I assume when doing the headers that its best to use 1 inch wide wrap ?
TIA
Ed

NZ951

Ed,

I didnt wrap my headers, I have had them ceramic coated, but no wrap. 1" would be easier to apply on the headers I would imagine.

PCinDC

FWIW I used the 2" wrap on all of the components I wrapped. I didn't have any difficulty wrapping them or fitting them back on the motor once wrapped.

Crazy Eddie

Got ya
Thanks again
Ed

NZ951

Ed,

Thinking about it, the 2" may even be getter on the headers as there would be less overlap points, its a pretty tight fit between the stock manifold sections...

Crazy Eddie

So Paul, you did or didn't remove the heat shield on the headers when you wraped ?
Thanks
Ed

PCinDC

I only removed the heatsheild on the upper part of the #4 runner, and that was for the purposes of easily fitting an EGT probe.

Crazy Eddie

Thanks Paul
Ed