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Originally Posted by thejeremyman9
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Originally Posted by johnung
Yeah, wrapping the TIC would just force more heat into the intercooler and make it work even harder. It's kind of the opposite situation from the downpipe. I purposely ceramic coated my Fabspeed downpipe because I didn't want it giving off more of that really high heat in the engine bay near the turbo. Ceramic coating it helped it to sweep more heat down and out through the exhaust system.
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I considered using exhaust wrap on my DP but i read a bunch of threads that recommended against it, mostly because moisure could become trapped and make things rust. I would also be a little concerned about potentially overheating the cat on really long pulls or hard driving but not sure about that part. If i was catless i would have definitely wrapped it. |
I had a similar conversation with a race car builder about turbo blankets. He said the downside was that it would cover up a problem like a turbo oil leak until it was too late.
(Note: His opinion was that a turbo blanket wouldn't do much if anything on a street engine but that they had benefits on the track on very high horsepower race engines)