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Heatshield Armor™ exhaust insulation is the best, most effective exhaust heat reduction solution, lessening the amount of heat radiated by an exhaust header, pipe, catalytic converter, and muffler by up to 70 percent. By drastically reducing the number of heat components the exhaust system is exposed to, Armor helps to increase i
The Chevy vs Ford debate goes back decades. It continues today just as it did during the Golden Age of muscle cars, covering everything from trucks and cars to engines and transmissions. This long-standing rivalry has inspired memes, window stickers, and countless comedy routines. In fact, some even have proclaimed that the LS V8 engine is just a copy of the Windsor.
Is this statement true? Is the GM LS series V8 just a copy of the Ford Windsor V8 engines? Or is the LS engine an original design that bears similarities due to common engineering
There are a lot of myths, malarkey and horse manure out there when it comes to exhaust wrap. The biggest pile is that exhaust wrap destroys your headers. This is a misconception that scares people away from using exhaust wrap to increase performance. When you wrap exhaust headers, more heat stays in the header pipes—which is what you want.
Where the misconception comes into play is with what happens after the wrap is on. There are a multitude of headers out there and therefore a variety of alloys for tube material. Metal alloys have a minimum and maximum temperature rating for what they can withstand. Extreme cold has major effects on metal just like extreme heat does. That’s why aircraft aluminum is designed to withstand extreme cold way more than extreme hea
Proposition 65 requires businesses to provide warnings to Californians about significant exposures to chemicals that cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. These chemicals can be in the products that Californians purchase, in their homes or workplaces, or that are released into the environment.
