teders
Senior Member
- First Name
- Ted Dorosheff
- Joined
- Aug 1, 2017
- Threads
- 56
- Messages
- 464
- Reaction score
- 351
- Location
- Mclean, Virginia
- Vehicle(s)
- 2017 Honda Civic SI
- Vehicle Showcase
- 1
About to pick up the Downpipe elbow blanket. I couldn't find the material you used to insulate your inlet pipe on the PTP website. Do you have a link?
Recently got ptp's downpipe elbow as I don't want to wrap my cat. Also got a few square feet of their thick fiberglass woven heat shielding and placed it around the middle of the inlet on the back side from screw mounting point to screw mounting point. Radiant heat from the turbine and downpipe is very minimal but the exposed area between them at the wastegate actuator arm is very hot. I'm thinking of putting some more of the material in that area.
I need to pick up a sheet of malleable but sturdy material. Place some of the insulation on it and use it as ducting to shield the bigger coolant lines and the path towards the intake and all cold side charge piping.
I've already wrapped my aluminum PRL charge pipe and found out my map sensor back as the head had all of the plastic pieces and probe all compacted together. I took a tiny electronics screw driver and sperated everything and moved the probe to the center. Cruising on the highway at 85mph+ temperature at the manifold was only 2-3f above what it was at the MAF housing. So whenever you're about to go wide open, your charge air is already around the temperature it would need to drop down well into spool up previously. It also makes rising IAT on long full load pulls more resilient to soak.
There's more stuff I can try when I get the time. But so far so good.
Looks great!
Sponsored