Anyone use them? I want to try one, but was wondering if anyone on here had opinions/experience to share.
Yeah, wrapped 2 turbos. The kit I used only came with enough SS line to stitch up 2-3 turbos, but enough heat wrap and reflective wrap to do about 5. Much easier to do with turbo off the car obviously. Underhood temps felt like they were quite a bit less with just wrap than without wrap and stock heatshield. I had the turbo blanket, heat shield, ceramic coated downpipe, and huge ebay tmic. Don't remember ever getting noticeable heat soak. Ceramic coating the hotside works well too. I would've done it if the downtime wasn't so long. I have some left over that I'd sell for cheap too. here's the kit I used: http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?autofilter=1&part=THE-15001&N=700+115&autoview=sku
Yeah, I would like to do a coated hotside too...but I figure if I'm going through that much trouble, I might has well order a 16g with the treatment done, as my turbo has about 85K on it, and after doing some searching, 91K is a popular time for the stock turbo to give up the ghost. Did you put the steel heatsheild back on over the top too?
I hear ya. Yeah, I put a cut, stock heatshield on over it (had to cut it for vf39 on wrx, not for the turbo blanket). The SPT piece is really nice. A lot more coverage than the stock piece. I'm thinking of getting one and ceramic coating it to make it look less blingy.
yeah they work great. however i've heard of people cooking tubros because they stay so hot after shutdown...and actually i think i did it too..
Hrmmm... Insulation screwing with the thermodynamics of the turbo cooling system? As I remember, the turbo coolant resevoir system (the reason we are supposed to not need a turbo timer) works entirely on temperature differences once the engine is shut off.
yeah i didnt look a whole lot into it...just remember reading stuff on the intraweb about people saying that
What this means is that the more heat that is kept in the turbo (from not being able to radiate it to the surroundings), the better the cooling system works to cool the turbo. I highly doubt that anyone has cooked a turbo due to it being ceramic coated or heat wrapped. Not changing your oil often enough or running low on oil would make a much larger difference to the life of the turbo.
