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Wrapping Up Ur Turbo?

   
Old Jan 2, 2003 | 12:05 AM
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Will you really get any gain from insulating your turbo? and wrapping the turbo exhaust manifold with some anti heat wrapping stuff? LMK guys., thx
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Old Jan 2, 2003 | 12:19 AM
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Will cut the turbos life short, the heat will have no where to go, just eat up the turbo/manifold.
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Old Jan 2, 2003 | 02:25 AM
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u should wrap the downpipe, not he turbo
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Old Jan 2, 2003 | 03:15 AM
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It will eat the downpipe up too. I would make a custom heat shield personally.
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Old Jan 2, 2003 | 03:31 AM
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My DP has been wrapped for years with no problems...I don't know if it does any good, though.
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Old Jan 2, 2003 | 03:58 AM
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It should technically keep intake and underhood temps down. My LIM must be dying, ive got nothing down there.
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Old Jan 2, 2003 | 04:03 AM
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Well, I don't have any heat shields around the turbo, so I'm breaking even at best.
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Old Jan 2, 2003 | 04:08 AM
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Maybes its different between turbo and na but on our old beemer it burned a hole in the headers and when it was fixed we wrapped it in heat wrap stuff and it burned another hole.
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Old Jan 2, 2003 | 10:42 AM
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That's exactly what that stuff does. At least for the majority.
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Old Jan 2, 2003 | 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Geoffman72' date='Jan 2 2003, 04:58 AM
It should technically keep intake and underhood temps down. My LIM must be dying, ive got nothing down there.
Yeah I plan on shielding my Lim, and maybe wrapping my Dp, I know it will kill it but o well. its a dp not a 1k turbo Besides its racingbeat there **** is good quality.
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