Turbo Shield

[Showgun]

I've used exhaust and header wrap b4 with success but not used this product for the turbos. It's Titanium Turbo Shield by DEI and I'm wondering if anyone has used it and how good it is.

It's not cheap by any means but if it reduces underhood heat it might be a good buy.

Seems to me someone posted here once that they had wrapped their turbos.

Does anyone know the circumference of our turbos on the SHO?


DEI Titanium Turbo Wrap

Cheers,

 

[HotRodKid]

i was not aware that pulverized volcanic rock would be a useful heat shield material. I always thought that volcanic rocks insulation properties stemmed from the trapped gasses when its in its natural form. Pulverizing it tends to screw that up a smidge.

 

[RedCandySHO]

You might want to look under the hood of the SHO. You cannot even see the turbos, or piping....not sure how you would install it without pulling the motor.

 

[Snorman]

Yeah, they're buried. The turbo on my turbo Buick is right out there for everybody to see, but not these.
S.

 

[EcoBrick Bob]

They can be reached from underneath after you take the plastic pan off.

 

[Unknown_Driver]

They can be reached from underneath after you take the plastic pan off.

werd!


as for the turbo blankets dunno if its worth it until you go into a bigger turbo

 

[Showgun]

Thanks guys. I didn't know since my car isn't here yet but it seems they're not very accessible tho perhaps from underneath. I'll see soon.

Cheers for the info.

 

[Marccus]

I own an '89 w/465K. I installed a rod shifter (recently!) and had to rip out the some of the exhaust heat shield to do so. I also installed a new SHOSource cat back system w/Borla mufflers. I then wrapped the exhaust pipe downstream of the cats and upstream of the resonator pipe w/ the DEI exhaust wrap you stated. I called DEI to talk to them about it. It's excellent stuff. Doesn't fray as much as the fiberglass wrap, goes on easily and nice and tight and looks great and still looks great. It has better insulating properties than the fiberglass wrap.

YOU HAVE TO BE AWARE that most header warranties are voided if you wrap them w/exhaust wrap. I don't know about the turbos. But my feeling is that if they run so much hotter that you end up cooking the oil and significantly reduce the life of the metal, that Ford will not honor a warranty. Check w/ Ford first. Just sayin'. But you are probably aware of this caution.

 

[Showgun]

Thanks you Marccus....I hadn't thought of that aspect of this at all.
Certainly worth a question or 2.

 

[dramsey]

i was not aware that pulverized volcanic rock would be a useful heat shield material. I always thought that volcanic rocks insulation properties stemmed from the trapped gasses when its in its natural form. Pulverizing it tends to screw that up a smidge.

No. The insulating qualities of any gas (at atmospheric pressure) are pretty much the same. Most insulation (think fiberglass matting or blow-in insulation for houses) works by maximizing the volume of air in the material and at the same time inhibiting air flow. Air doesn't conduct heat well, but at the same time you don't want any air flow around whatever you're trying to insulate.

So a light, porous rock will insulate better than a solid rock. It doesn't really matter (as far as insulation goes) what gas is in the pores.

 

[HotRodKid]

-snip- works by maximizing the volume of air in the material -snip-

So a light, porous rock will insulate better than a solid rock. It doesn't really matter (as far as insulation goes) what gas is in the pores.

And if you pulverize said volcanic rock to the point that you can strain it into a fiber material, how you maximized or minimized the amount of trapped gasses in the rock?