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06-19-2017, 03:36 AM | #1 |
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Ceramic Coat Or Heat Wrap For Turbo Setup
For those who are turbo'd, what is better ceramic coat or heat wrap for daily use and some track days?
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Ceramic for sure. It costs more obviously but worth it. My car is only street driven so I opted for a turbo blanket and wrapping the downpipe, manifold, and over-pipe. Some folk say that wrapped exhaust has a tendency to retain moisture, rust, and eventually crack your piping but I've been wrapped my exhaust on several cars and never had an issue.
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In for details... I saw something interesting at the track. Someone had coated their intake piping (piping after intercooler, sc setup) in wrinkle black. Something similar to what our plastic intake manifold looks/feels like. I wonder what the benefits would be.
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To my understanding, wrinkle finished aluminum has no thermal protecting properties...it is simply cosmetic. Although it may help the piping age better.
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Ceramic coat over heat wrap any day of the week. For one, it makes your engine bay look really ratty after a month.
Second, if you live where it's even slightly humid it'll trap moisture over time. Third, heat makes metal expand. So some guys wrap this thing so tight that it essentially puts extra strain on the piping. This added on top of trapping moisture isn't the most friendly to the pipe underneath. |
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Unless you leave your car sitting for months moisture build up is a non issue with wrap. Start the car and boom moisture is gone after 2 minutes. The big issue with wrapping is oil saturating the wrap then burning. They do however do wonders for under hood temps.
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Personally, I would never heat wrap a pipe on a road going daily driver. If you wanna consider that pipe a disposable part, go for it. Did I mention that it looks ratty and shitty after a few days? PS, I used to own a GT-Four RC with a berk DP along with another guy who also owned one and we bought the DP together, he went heat wrap. I went with the ceramic coating direct from berk. After we both ran the car for a few years, my pipe sill looked decently clean, where as his required to be rewrapped. When he did remove the wrap to be rewrapped, it had all the dirt from moisture seeping through the wrap and onto the pipe and the outlines of where the wrap was. All the crud was burned into the pipe itself and looked nasty. I can't imagine that's healthy for the pipe. Last edited by ST185RC; 06-20-2017 at 06:40 PM. |
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You can't wrap the inside of a pipe or header
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