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  1. Exhaust Wrap Basics: What Are Exhaust Wraps, Are There Different Types, & How Much Wrap Will I Need?

    Exhaust Wraps

    Exhaust Wraps: The Basics, Different Types, & How Much You Need

     

    Keeping more heat inside your exhaust system has multiple benefits. It increases exhaust system efficiency, reduces under-hood and under-car heat, significantly reduces the amount of heat components near the exhaust system are exposed to, and helps to reduce the risk of severely burning yourself on a hot exhaust pipe when working on your vehicle.

     

    Exhaust Wrap is one of the best ways to keep more heat in your exhaust system, especially when it comes to insulating exhaust header and manifold pipes. Heatshield Products has spent decades developing and evolving the best and most durable exhaust wraps available to insulate pipes and reduce the amount of heat they radiate. But there are some important

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  2. Thermal Imaging Shows the Benefits of Turbo Shields

    Heatshield Products Lava Turbo Shield thermal imaging test

    We’ve talked before about the benefits of installing a Heatshield Products turbo shield on your car’s turbocharger. Specifically, how when there’s more heat in the turbo spool time and turbo lag decrease, higher exhaust gas velocities increase boost faster and underhood temperatures will be lower.

    Our friends at DBR High Performance in Spring Hill, Tennessee, took these thermal images of what was going on underhood at the races as they ran our Lava™ Turbo Shield and Lava™ Tube thermal-barrier sleeving. They’ve been working with us to gather data

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  3. Ridin’ Cool: Why You Need Exhaust Wrap for Your Motorcycle

    An orange Harley Davidson motorcycle without motorcycle exhaust tape

    It there’s one thing that motorcycle aficionados know, it’s that you can always make improvements and modifications to your ride. One simple and effective upgrade you can easily do at home is applying a fiberglass or volcanic-rock exhaust wrap to your motorcycle’s header and exhaust pipe. This improves the look of your pipes while preventing burns and improving performance.

    Want to know more about how exhaust wrap can lead to a smoother, cooler ride? Here are four reasons why we recommend motorcycle exhaust tape for your ride!

    Reasons to Use Exhaust Wrap on Your Motorcycle

    Cools the Engine for Improved Performance

    When you need to maintain high speeds for racing, reducing downtime while you wait

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  4. Heatshield Products Equipped Gen Right Off Road Inc. Takes on King of the Hammers 2016!

    If you’ve ever been to the King of the Hammers event deep in the California desert, you know it is a brutal torture test of man and off-road machine. It’s also entertaining as hell!

    Recently we got a recap from King of the Hammers competitor and Heatshield Products user Tony Pellegrino from Gen Right Off Road Inc. about his team’s exploits at the recent 2016 event:

    “This year’s King of the Hammers race lived up to its claim of being ‘The toughest race in America!’

    Jami (Pellegrino)’s UTV race was on Wednesday and was going well, when at mile 100 of 116 a rear suspension bolt came out and broke the rear shock and axle shaft, taking them out of the race.

    Jordan (Pellegrino)’s race was on Thursday and he drove like a champ! At age 17 he piloted his new MOD Class car to

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  5. PTMM -7-14-14 - Edition

    Who else had a weekend that was too short? No time to cry about it now time to get moving. We are right smack dab in the middle of summer and it is heating up. What are you doing to keep your cool? If you are like our friends at Double D’s racing you are insulating your race farings on your sport bike. Check out the terrific install using a combo of Heatshield Mat for the radiant heat and the Lava Shield for the areas that come in direct contact with exhaust. Drew how did you and your crew chief do this weekend?

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