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  1. Heat Issues to Look For and Fix Before Cruising Season

    Heat Issues to Look For and Fix Before Cruising Season

    Summer cruising season is right around the corner. Now’s the time to go over your ride and make sure you’re protected against heat-related issues so you don’t end up on the side of the road or in some parking lot. Heatshield Products has a variety of thermal and reflective/deflective heat barriers and insulation that can help guard against summer heat adding to underhood and under-vehicle heat to create reliability issues and possible premature component and system failures.

    Areas to protect for heat issues:

    • Fuel lines
    • Power steering and brake lines
    • Wiring harnesses and connectors
    • Clutch slave cylinders
    • Under-vehicle components located near the exhaust system  

    There areas to look at for where heat can cause you problems are anyplace on the vehicle where fluid lines, fuel lines, wiring harnesses and ignition wires/components are close to a major heat source. For example, fuel lines that run close

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  2. Heatshield Armor, Stealth Shield and Sticky Shield Test

    Heatshield Armor, Stealth Shield and Sticky Shield Test

    In our previous blog, we showed the benefits of replacing the OE insulation typically found under carpet or vinyl flooring with our Stealth™ Shield. Stealth Shield works great, and to achieve the best results in keeping as much heat as possible from being radiated into the vehicle’s interior from underneath, you can use two additional thermal barriers from the Heatshield Products lineup.

    Sticky™ Shield stick

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  3. HP Stealth Shield™ Heat Barrier Test

    HP Stealth Shield™ Heat Barrier Test

    Keeping heat out of your car or truck’s interior can make the ride a lot more enjoyable. Heatshield Products thermal barriers, insulation and other heat control products significantly decrease the heat transferred to the interior of the vehicle. To show what our product line is capable of and what you can expect, we conducted a test using the HP Stealth Shield™ heat shield interior insulation and thermal-barrier material.

    HP Stealth Shield is a lightweight material that feels like felt cloth and is based on the same proprietary technology and specially formulated material used in our welding blankets. It blocks heat and can even withstand direct contact with flames. At

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  4. Sticky Shield and Stealth Shield Floor Pan Heat Simulation

    Sticky Shield and Stealth Shield Floor Pan Heat Simulation

    Heat rises. Always has, always will. It’s one of those physics things that’s indisputable and constant in the universe. It’s also why the heat from the exhaust system on a car or truck will always radiate upward. As that heat goes up, it hits the floorboard, then is transferred to the interior, which increases the amount of heat that the air conditioning system (if the vehicle has A/C) has to deal with – not to mention it’s felt by the feet, legs and even rearend of passengers.

    Heatshield Products has multiple products that can reduce this heat, including our Heatshield Armor exhaust insulation. We know that some people don’t want to put anything on th

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  5. Keeping Heat Out Without Adding Significant Weight

    Keeping Heat Out Without Adding Significant Weight

    In a production car or truck, adding pounds of noise- and heat-blocking insulation is often done to keep the cabin quiet and comfy, even on the hottest days. It’s a stark contrast to the world of racing, where modifications are evaluated for necessity versus a tenth-of-a-second or mile-per-hour of speed, since the additional weight could make the difference between victory and defeat. Strict focus on performance versus weight often means driver comfort is sacrificed. Another issue is that the exposure to high heat could result in component failure or performance loss.

    Heatshield Products has developed thermal barriers and insulation engineered to keep heat out–or in—without adding significant weight. Decades of R&D work as well as being hands on with racers led us to create solutions for these problems. We recently worked on the T-Rex project, a car being built

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