who has any experience with this? ive heard pros and cons to it. the good is that it helps keep heat in for exhaust scavenging and bad is that also holds moisture in to help create rust. what is you guys input on it

 

well, on a stainless header it's not bad, but i wouldn't use it on a cast part. it'll crack the bitch

 

i was thinking of using it on a zzp header with the black high temp paint on it since i cant afford the stainless pieces

 

i used to race go-karts, with the 5 hp brigs engines on them, and if we wrapped a cast iron or even a steel header with the wrap after about 100 laps or so the header would literally explode, and it felt as if nitros was added to the fuel...

i would not use it unless it was on stainless and just wondering, why would u really bother with it? i see header wrapping as kinda pointless the header really is not effecting the temperatures of anything

 

wow that kinda sounds dangerous so i guess im not going to wrap it. well my dad used to drag race and he said he always wrapped htem to keep some of the under hood temps down so i thought bout it for my car but if its not worth it, ill just ditch that idea. thanks guys

 

send it out to get jet coated

http://www.jet-hot.com/Pages/coatings.html

 

Don't Do It
If ever you have a problem with the part you will likely be denied a warrenty replacement part.
Most header manufacturers like ZZP don't approve of the use of header wrap

 

im going to header wrap my pacesetter header

 

hmmmm interesting. I did not know this about headerwrap.

 

i had my pacesetter on my 2.2 wrapped and i dont think it really did anything

 

im just going to wrap it because i got the black one and the paint is gonna burn off and look like ass

 

send it out to get coated

 

too expensive

 

I thought about wrapping mine but I haven't gotten to it yet but when i do it i hope i have enough left over to wrap the intake as welll to keep it cooler.

 

Dont wrap a header, get a ceramic coated header, or have yours coated, the wrap WILL "rot" the tubes.

 

well i just ordered the zzp header and chose to get the dp in stainless and i guess ill just leave the black paint open no one will really see it anyways

 

i dont understand what you mean by it will rot the tubes

i dont understand what you mean by it will rot the tubes

 

The only post in this thread that made sense.

Thank you Aaron.

 

yes but why

 

Condensation can get in between the wrap and the tubes and the wrap will hold it there longer than naturally causing a rotting over a period of time.

That will do absolutely nothing.

I'm assuming you're talking about a alluminum tube'd intake...alluminum doesn't retain heat as great as you might think.

The point of a header wrap is to keep the heat IN, not OUT. Putting it on your intake will be reversing the purpose and it still will ultimately do nothing to benefit you.

It's not that expensive. You have to call them anyways to get a pricing, there isn't a specific set price because it depends on what you're coating.

I've dealt with Jet Hot and they were great with customer service and shipping.

 

^ i know that it is good, but if i wanted that done i would have just bought the armor coated header instead of the painted one

 

just trying to help out.

 

Ok thanks for letting me know. I was just thinking about doing it because i had seen a post on here about someone doing it and it kept there IAT2's down like 10-20 degress

 

No problem