problem w/turbo

[AcesHigh]

I apologize dbebisi, I wasn't insinuating that you were full of shit nor was I trying to suggest the point. I was saying that around where I live, alot of people have been spreading the word around about this. Stock headers come with a heat shield, why do they not crack from the heat held in by that? As someone who's used heat wrap on his Talon TSI manifold (it worked great on a turbo car) for nearly two years without problems, I just saw that this claim was unfair.

All this has reminded me to buy a roll of heat wrap.

Cheers.

[dbebesi]

no man, it's cool. i trust your advice more than anyone else on here (no offense anyone, he know's his shit). the funny thing is, we both have used it without problems, so i guess i would look like the dumbass. as far as the heatshield goes, it's use is to protect other parts of the engine compartment, and your bay heat level. but it's not wraped tightly around the tubing. the heat wrap is, and it serves a good purpose. i will rephase my original comment : heat wrap is good. use it. i use it. don't wrap your header with so much it looks like a giant blob. do a single or double layer. one roll worth. my own two eyes have seen an extrememly over wrapped header, that was ceramic coated (which i suggest not to use heat wrap with) and it looked like a giant blob. the pipe cracked off at a welded seam. and as he was pulling off the heat wrap. i laughed my ass off. so don't be like that doof, in his pimped out sunfire