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Burning Brakes
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From: Loveland CO
the exhaust is stainless so if you wrap the pipes you are not going to get anything more then surface corrosion... and if the car is not driven then you will not get the wrap wet to cause the corrosion.
I have a non coated 1/4 tunnel plate and it stays much cooler then the stock one did. thicker plate alone will not hold the heat and its aluminum so the heat doesnt hold in the metal very long.
DEI makes great stuff, you can get a number of things from them for heat shielding, heck EE makes a tunnel plate with heat shielding that you can add with the plate, probably made from some sort of DEI material.
EE Ceramic Coated Plate:
http://www.eliteengineeringusa.com/1...-tunnel-plate/
EE Cermaic Coated Plate with "Thermal ABS"
http://www.eliteengineeringusa.com/1...h-thermal-abs/
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I already have one of those thermal coated tunnel plates and they do work... coating the x-pipe would just help even more, I'd rather do that than wrap it personally
Melting Slicks
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Once I do the headers, no question it will be worse.
I just purchased some het shield off amazon for the underside of the tunnel to install when I'm swapping the clutch and torque tube. It isn't the DEI product but still looks decent. But I'm going to order up the DEI tunnel shield as well to use with it. Think I will use the DEI shield on the tunnel and the generic shield on the bottom of the torque tube. Help keep the tube cooler. Sure it doesn't matter, but maybe it will help protect the guibos. Also using SS Damplifier pro on the upper side of the torque tube to help prevent noise/vibrations through the drivetrain. I may as well add to the backside of the tunnel plate while it's off too.
I think it's a no brainer for me to go ahead and have my LG S. Pros ceramic coated before I install them. Only thing I'm worried about is the fitment afterwards. All the parts are a slipfit. Is the coating gonna give me grief and keep the pieces from fitting together? Should I tell the coaters to not coat the ends of the pipes???
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Burning Brakes
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I think it's a no brainer for me to go ahead and have my LG S. Pros ceramic coated before I install them. Only thing I'm worried about is the fitment afterwards. All the parts are a slipfit. Is the coating gonna give me grief and keep the pieces from fitting together? Should I tell the coaters to not coat the ends of the pipes???
Remember if you have cats in the pipes then only coat the outside of the pipes.
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I think you will be fine with the coating fitting the slip joints, my headers are coated all the way to the collector and I had no problems getting mine on... jethot's coating is not like a thick layer of paint or anything like that, it seems very thin but holds up really well in my experience
