Heat Management / Header Wrap (also for your turbo guys)

[PDenbigh]

Thanks for all of your replys guys!

Since my car is strictly a race car now, and will only be driven at the track, I think I'm going to wrap some stuff up.

The problem with a heat sheild is that it will reflect some of the radiant heat, but it still just adds surface area to dissapate heat into the engine bay.

I don't want to insulate the hood b/c I want the heat out of there...

I think header wrap looks fine, looks "serious" and I see many race cars with it...

With a turbo you want as much pipe as possible. The turbo gives the ample back pressure. Soon I'll just have a pipe coming out under the passanger door ;-).

The highest temps your system sees is while cruizing on the interstate at 3k rpm because that is the leanest your engine goes (For fuel economy purposes). While on track, I get EGT's of between 1000-1300, while on the interstate they get higher than 1350.

Thanks for all the chat, good to know other points of view and provoke thought!

Pete