Hi hi, I wanna share some pictures with you guys/gals. Thanks to the timshow for the awesome photos. The little turby sittin where it isnt suppose to sit Me fanagling the integrated up-pipe between the head and crossmember. Got that little guy outta there. Heatwrapping begins: Still going O Its done! But wait a second....I came up short :ugh: That was 1 roll of 2"x50' :ugh: Kobe is just chillin n the backseat...Doing his dog thing. That was my adventure...Any1 have about 5' of heatwrap laying around to which i could steal/buy/whore my body for :yumyum:?
toooom i woulda told you to wear gloves!!!! but awesome job man, looks great! what did the heat wrap run ya?
haha...i gave up on the gloves... Too bulky to grab the wrap inbetween the pipes. I had goggles on too, but those came off. Same with my clothes. I think it was like $50 or something at MAperformance.
Finnegans!!! Yes!!! Thank you for supporting the beer company that I volunteer for!! FYI, Finnegan's is the worlds only non-profit beer company. You just donated money to at-risk youth while drinking. :cheers2:
if you need a little more to finish I have like half a roll of the wider stuff in the same color laying around
Haha Yes!! Finni's is so Good! Tastes great and makes me feel good about drinking beer :yumyum: It is Meagan racing. I would love you forever and ever.
Maybee it's just my leather like skin...but I didn't have a problem with irritation...but yes, I soaked it first too. 2-2"x50ft rolls did all my exhaust (from the manifold x-over, up and back all the way to the muffler) except the cast (oem) manifolds (how would you wrap them:roll which I had ported and coated...obviously, going with a header would require more material.
Nah....no wetting and no irritation either. Umm.... Thanks to T-Rex I finished em up tonight. I'll post some pics later tomaro.
looks good. There are two different kinds of wrap there is the fiberglass based wrap and the copper based wrap. The copper kind doesnt itch, the fiberglass itches but not too bad. You wet the wrap first, so that when it dries it tightens and really sticks. I have done it both ways and didnt really see a difference between wet and dry, just make sure it is very tight, and after it gets really hot a couple times it will stick on its own.
ahhh that makes sense. I got it as tight as i could. Should i spray it down with water now that its already wrapped?
When I wrapped my stock exhaust manifold, I spent some time cutting off the silly mounting points for the heat shields. When it comes to wrapping, its like having an easy button.
Nah, dont worry about it. I would just leave it if its already wrapped. You might want to hit it with some (very) high temp paint to help keep salt of there in the winter. Although salt will probably find its way in anyway.
yes, cutting off the knobs makes it easy! I could also tell the weight difference. (not much, but I could tell, lol)
