Cobra4B

Last night I uwas up under the car installing my tunnel plate w/ the newly added Elite Engineering thermal barrier and wiped off the trans case. I got to thinking... I could put DEI cool tape in the little squarish resesses of the tans case. Anoyone do this to reflect heat? My exhaust is almost done being ceramic coated black so that'll keep most of the heat away and I run Amsoil ATF.

Good idea? Any benefit?

wtknght1

Don't screw around with stuff that might or might not work. If you do lots of events where your tranny gets above 250 consistently, then get a tranny cooler for it. You won't regret it.

Cobra4B

^ Actually I've never had the trans temp warnigng come on ever... I've always run Amsoil ATF in there. Now that my entire enxuast will be ceramic coated turbo black the head will be kept away from the case. I just figured some heat reflection might help more.

Odly, when my car blew the air tube off at VIR father's day weekend I used my dad's stock '04 Z16 for two sessions. The car had 12,000 miles on it and 1/2 way into the session I had the trans overtemp warning blaring. Only think I could think of is the stock dextron III in there.

One day I'm sure I'll get the trans/dif coolers, but so far it hasn't been an issue.

Dirty Howie

My headers are coated and in addition I placed exhaust wrap where they are near the trans.

I have used the DEI thermal blanket wrap around the transmission lines themselves.


DH

Falcon

Brian, I'm not sure that the fulid you use will prevent the fluid from getting hot. The better fluids just tolerate the heat better.

I wrap my exhausts with header tape where they go by the xmission and diff and never get any hi temp warnings. (knock on wood )

RedLS6

I'd be careful with this.......most of the heat in the transmission is internally generated through friction, and taping the outside of the tranny could actually act as insulation and prevent some of this heat from escaping, causing a hotter tranny. This might outweigh any reflective protection the tape might provide from outside heat sources such as the exhaust.

Cobra4B

^ true... I'll leave it!

vms4evr

I have the DEI header wrap on from behind the cats all the way down to where the pipes meet the TI mufflers.

I have never had a trans temp warning. I was at the same event you were at Cobra when you overheated it. I also have RP Synchromx in the trans though instead of Dexron III.

Cobra4B

^ Again... never overheated my own car. Was my dad's w/ stock fluid that got the trans temp warning.

gringram

04Z and I had the high trans temp warning at Infinion last Monday. Ambient temp was 80, I received the warning on the 2nd session in the afternoon. I run amsoil atf in the trans.

Allthrottleandsomebottle

A in my book for sure

0Randy@DRM

Where is the heat coming from then???

Randy

Allthrottleandsomebottle

I agree with him.........DO NOT WRAP THE TRANS
PS, ever found the info on my 97's short block?
Steve

SouthernSon

Tranny warning on the Z06 at Putnam. Ambient in the 80's. I am now sporting oil and tranny coolers. Also, DRM/LG ducting for rotors since I cracked the fronts. "you runna a fast session, you gonna get a leetle hot....it happens."