Originally Posted by turboboss
Originally Posted by Rick
Originally Posted by Christian and Beccy
Also, is it really good to keep ALL that heat in??
Surely EGT's will be higher and thereby risk other components failing?
Stupid idea. If you want to extract every last hp. then ok. But we're not racing, we're doing it for fun, and i prefer reliability than +3hp.
now your putting me off
Well, we often see car's where the customer has gone to great lengths to heatproof everything and generally on car's like that you can expect EGT's to be considerably higher. It really is a fine-balance. I am fairly sure that my manifold won't be wrapped, but I will use heat-proofing materials to protect the area's close to this major heat-source.