Those running tubular turbo manifold in your setup, what kind of heat wraps or heat shield are you using to keep the heat down?

Besides the turbo manifold itself, what other components under the hood would need heat wraps to avoid melting or causing possible fire in engine bay?

 

I'm looking at ceramic coating the manifold, if it still looks like I will have issues I will use some reflective wrap on the closes parts.

 

From what I read when it comes to coatings, there is not a coating out there that can stand up to the heat that a turbo car produces. They would flake, discolor and end up looking like crap at the end...

 

I tend to agree but it all depends on the length of time... I had my last manifold ceramic coated and it lasted about 2 years before is started to flake, and it was daily driven....

 

Even if it does flake a little bit, how much area is actually being uncovered? I'd guess only in the range of 5% or less. I'll still take that other 95% being covered.

 

when it starts to go it all starts to go LOL, i had some pretty big chunks cracking off.....

but can you honestly expect anything to stand up to a 1000 degrees for any real length of time?

 

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I'm using a few things with success:

1) DEI Titanium Exhaust wrap - I used this on my ETS headers and UR O2 Downpipe and the heat is reduced althought that area is still rather warm.

2) DEI Titanium T3 turbo blanket - cut a hole in the material so that the mounting point wasn't blocked. Mostly fits my GT3076R bolt on turbo, would fit with extra room to spare on a stock housing.

3) DEI Cool Tape - Any connectors or plastic parts that are in line of sight I covered with this tape. I covered the Upper IC pipe for the first foot off the Turbo outlet pipe and the last couple feet of Lower IC pipe. The turbo inlet pipe and the entire compressor side of the turbo also have this applied and it seems to reflect most of the radiant heat away quite effectively.

Other things that helped control underhood temps was to place my intake filter inside a cold air box and I opened up the vents on the hood for more airflow. I still may install the original heat shield by attaching it to the strut tower mounting point and direct more heat away from the rest of the engine bay.

 

^did you apply any DEI tape to the lines and vaccum hoses behind the engine area? Are those parts prone to crack due to high heat?

 

The stock setup still radiates a fair amount of heat at those components anyways so most of them are pretty durable because they aren't super close to the manifold. That said I was pretty liberal applying the ~$10 roll of DEI Cooltape since it realy does a good job of deflecting radiant heat away.

The most vulnerable spot was an electric plug in the back driver's side of the head, I actually had the upper portion of that plug start to become molten at some point since it's under 2" away from the manifold runners. Wrapped or not there is still quite a bit of heat radiating off those runners at close range. After coating it in 2 layers of DEI cooltape it survived the last 3 months plus a couple trips to a road course without any issues.

 

We offer a ceramic coating option with our manifolds. We coat the inside and the outside to keep temps down. We have been running our HTA3586 kit with no wrapping and the under hood temps are good.

Thanks,

Michael

 

i run nothing and have no issues, manifold has been on the car for at least 10k
only thing that is wrapped is my downpipe

ill take pics

 

Which manifold are you running? and did you have to wrap the plastic plug close to the manifold to avoid melting? Pics would be great!!