Heat Wrap
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Melting Slicks
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Heat Wrap
I'm planning my exhaust system, and while on summit's webpage, I notice in their heat wraps come wiht a disclaimer, "Using a heat wrap will void a Header's Warranty." Why is this? What possible negative effects could heat wrap have?
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Melting Slicks
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I dug around in the search a little and now i see that heat wrap almost works too well, it holds the heat in to the point that the headers become brittle... That doesnt really sound right to me... But are their alternatives to wrapping? Any companies make LT header heat shields?
Drifting
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Jet Hot is pretty reasonable - I bought my Hooker 2151 Long Tubes from them this week for $600 shippped - It would have been $525 shipped but it cost me to have them weld in the o2 bungs. I know that they'll coat anything you send them I think it's only a couple hundred bucks.
Burning Brakes
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From: Cape Cod Ma
Same as above. Jet-hot coated hooker non-emissions headers. I think a pare of headers coated by them is between $2-250.00. I've heard the coating that (i think) headman and dyno-max use isn't good and will start peelind after a sort time. The jet-hots are for life.
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Originally Posted by mikey whipreck
...and i think wrap would be more effective then coating?
The coating itself doesn't get as hot to begin with keeping the whole unit cooler. I can usually grab my coated headers with a full fist 10-12 minutes after the car has been off and its only warm. I wouldn't try it with a wrap.
p.s.
Just saw your avatar, no wonder you're confused.
Team Owner
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From: OBAMA IS HITLER
don't ruin your headers with a wrap. have them coated internally & externally. use a heat resistant tape like DEI on nearby components (say, within 6 inches of the headers).
p.s. i agree with Scorp508, you're very confused by the looks of your avatar.
p.s. i agree with Scorp508, you're very confused by the looks of your avatar.
Drifting
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www.procryo.com they will do it for $175 and its the same thing jet hot does. they are a local shop my atlanta corvette group uses.
great family buisness. I love the job they did. Took 3 days!!!
good luck.
also you could heat wrap things such as fuel lines oil lines...etc..
great family buisness. I love the job they did. Took 3 days!!!
good luck.
also you could heat wrap things such as fuel lines oil lines...etc..
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Melting Slicks
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Okay... you talked me into it. Theres a local race shop that I think will handle coating headers. Thanks for the input.
p.s. I was having a little fun with scorps' avatar... a political discussion would get ugly so i'll stay away from that
p.s. I was having a little fun with scorps' avatar... a political discussion would get ugly so i'll stay away from that