Turbo Guys: Heat Control

[jrcook320]

Tonight I started working on wrapping my turbo inlet pipe because it runs really close to the manifold and I suspect it picks up a lot of extra heat. I bought some reflective fiberglass heat tape from summit racing for $7/roll and started with the first pipe tonight. I also put a piece of tape across the top of the compressor housing to shield some of the radiant heat from the manifold.











The next step will be wrapping the manifold with a heat shield to block more radiant heat from the rest of the engine bay. I may also wrap the intake pipe because it runs behind the radiator and very close to hot coolant hoses.

[DrewDude320i]

I'll probably invest in some of that as well. As anyone with a BAE kit knows, the big charge tube runs about 3 mm from the exhaust manifold, which is a problem.

[epmedia]

Sweet...

Consider fabricating a heat shield around the exhaust manifold as well. I did a heat shield with fiber-glass and mesh screen around my reactor and it works pretty good.

Super Job you doing, Robert

[BoostedE21]

Nice work Josh, looks good.

[bflan2001]

i've never seen a dinan turbo manifold before, those must be pretty rare!

[jrcook320]

i've never seen a dinan turbo manifold before, those must be pretty rare!

yeah, really rare. I've seen 2, mine and one that was for sale a few years ago. Mine was a rough casting that I had a local shop machine and drill for me, so it has a t25 bolt pattern which is probably not standard for a dinan manifold...