I have a home built turbo kit... t-70 set up like the bg kit. My down pipe runs under my intake pipe. I wraped my downpipe and temps seemed to go down but if I wrap my intake tube will it hold heat out or trap it in?

This is an intercooled kit and the pipe from maf to tb is the one getting hot... I just dont want to heat soak it.

TIA!

 

I wrapped my cold side as well. It runs right over the downpipe and only has about 1/8" in clearance at one point, so I decided to try the wrap on it. I originally had the downpipe wrapped, and not the maf to throttle body pipe, and it would get very hot to the touch. With it wrapped up, I can easily tell by touching it that the wrap is helping. I don't have any way to measure the inlet temp differences, but I would have to say it is working pretty well. Hope this helps, just my .02

 

THANKS!

 

Same problem here. I have the BG kit and the TB pipe gets smoking hot. Im thinking of wrapping it and putting a turbo blanket

 

I had mine coated inside and out by Airborn coating. It helped alot.

Also there is a new coating that you can put your hand on the header while the car is running, so i guess it hold even beter than what i have. MAybe somthing to look into.

 

where did you see that coating?

 

I guess its like a porcelain type coating very similar to what Air Born uses, Just people talking about it.

 

If i recall steve's notch had wrap on his intake tube and then he went to some sort of coating on it. looked powder coated... real nice clean looking. but most of his stuff looks sweet and backs it up with insane #'s...

you can view it here

https://www.theturboforums.com/feature_cars/steve.php

here is wrapped

https://www.theturboforums.com/car_images/featuresteve/engine-4-8-20-02.jpg

coated

https://www.theturboforums.com/car_images/featuresteve/newengineresize3.jpg

 

Same here