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Heatshield is your source for USA-made heat wrap products, as well as for the latest news, industry trends, and tutorials. In the blog articles below, you can read about topics such as why we make the best header wrap and intake heatshield materials on the market, pro tips on installation, product applications, and more.

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  1. HWT-7-23-14 Edition

    Anyone else feel like they are in the middle of a 12 round bout? it’s been a busy week with lots of challenges, but the silver lining is, we are half way to race day! In order to play you have to work hard first. With that in mind, we are working behind the scenes to keep you cool. Here is a sneak peek at one of the items to launch just in time for SEMA.

    Check it out...

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  2. Skunk Works Fiday Edition

    Another Friday and after a week of Monday’s this one couldn’t get here soon enough. It has been a wild week here at Heatshield and we are thrashing to make some deadlines. All that being said, you can’t stop and sit on your keester and be happy with the madness. Here is another sneak peek from the skunk works. Duramax turbo manifold heat shields. Headed off to #CustomAuto in Idaho for some serious abuse and testing. stay tuned for availability!

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  3. Another Instant Muscle Shield

    Another Instant-Muscle Shield fresh from the #skunkworks. Check out this beauty for a #LS3 stock intake manifold. Now we just need to find someone brave enough to test it for us and flog the wee out of their ride!This should be available in late November, earlier if we can get some good testing and data back quickly on it!

    We will be working hard on more in the months to come. What would you guys like to see us do next?

    Part # 140021!

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  4. Prelude to a Show Part 1

    Just a few very beta items fresh from the skunks works to be featured on some booth vehicles at the upcoming 2013 SEMA Show #turboheatshield for a killer #turboharley and a #rippsuperchargers heat shield cover! We can't wait to see the cars #thergarageinc and #rockstargarage.

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  5. Lower Intake Temperatures

    We love feedback! And this is one killer review/opinion from a couple of guys who were helping us develop our Instant Muscle Shield for the 2011-2014 V6 Mustang. Here the test comments.

    "I was able to meet up with my son (FoolnYa) this afternoon and do a comparison test between our cars and the 'Heatshield Products Intake Cooler' Reflector. My son's car is a 2012 3.7 M6 with 3.73 gears, mine is exactly the same except for it is a 2011.

    Our cars both have BBK chrome long tube headers with O/R X-pipes, JLT plastic tube CAI's (mine is painted, his is plain). I have the BBK 73MM TB and Lone Wolf ported manifolds, he has a self ported stock TB and stock manifolds. My car has the Heatshield Products Cooler/Reflector, his does not.

    Both of our cars had been sitting overnight. We started the cars and drove about 5 miles of normal driving to get the cars up to full operating temperature. The outside air temperature was 84 degrees. We then pulled into a parking lot and opened the hoods and took 3 different readings. One reading was right above where the vacuum line from the brake booster

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