03-25-2018, 07:52 PM
(03-25-2018, 04:10 PM)ScottyB Wrote:(03-21-2018, 09:21 AM)Deceus Wrote: The downside to the wraps is that they tend to hold moisture and rust out headers pretty fast.
i've always thought with wrapped headers you sprayed them with some kind of header paint after they're wrapped and it seals out the moisture. at least for a time - maybe that degrades and they do contribute to rusting. i never had a chance to try it with the borla manifold on my subaru but that seemed how everyone with those cars did it.
Yeah it's pretty debatable. If you're driving pretty it regularly then it's not nearly as big of an issue because the moisture gets burnt off. If it's sitting for months at a time in a garage that gets coated in water every time the temp jumps from 30 to 60 (fucking VA weather) then it's not as good of an idea. I'll just wrap everything else and get a good ceramic coating on the headers. Put a heat shield on the battery cable today and the shifter cable already has one. I'll be sure to route the trans cooler lines a little later by switching to the smaller clamps I have. Right now they're routed together through some jumbo clamps that let them move around a little. Been looking into getting a blanket for my starter as well while I'm able to access it still.
That should cover all bases. Just waiting on the headers to get in here to start a lot of work. Got the lower control arms on today and replaced the ball joint boots that needed replacing. Nothing is torqued down yet but I should be able to move pretty fast once everything is here. Going to be a bit nervous until I get tracking info for the headers. I'd really like to make it to the Autocross the Sunday after the show as well but I'd like to drive it little more to make sure the crankcase issue is resolved and give the EFI some time to tune.