Heat Wrap Tech Tips & News – Welcome to the Heatshield Blog

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.

When it comes to turbo heat wrap and thermal barriers, no one beats our product quality and professional expertise. Thanks for reading, and please feel free to contact us with any questions.

  1. Sticky Shield Adhesive Backing Removal Tip

    Sticky Shield Adhesive Backing Removal Tip

    Sticky Shield: The Only All-In-One Self-Adhesive Heat Shield Material You’ll Ever Need

    Heatshield Products Sticky Shield is the number one thermal barrier for deflecting heat away from a surface. Thanks to its Kool Core™ insulation thermal barrier material, it can handle up to 1100 degrees F continuous heat.

    Sticky Shield is so efficient it deflects up to 90 percent of radiant heat with just one inch or more of air space between HP Sticky Shield and the radiant heat source.

    The self-adhesive Heat Shield material of Sticky Shield can easily be cut and shaped to cover curved and angled surfaces, and built-in high-temperature adhesive backing makes ins

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  2. Best Ways to Cut Lava Tube Material for Proper Fitment

    Best Ways to Cut Lava Tube Material for Proper Fitment

    In our latest how-to blog, we’re going to show you some helpful tips for cutting and finishing LavaTM Tube thermal barrier sleeve material so you can have a clean, professional looking install.

    LavaTM Tube is one of the most effective ways you can protect fluid lines and wiring harnesses from damaging heat exposure. Made from our specially-formulated volcanic rock-based fiber material, LavaTM Tube can handled up 1200 degrees F of constant heat and intermittent maximum temperature of 2000 degrees F. The volcanic rock-based fibers also give LavaTM Tube a resistance to chemical damage and exposure. Built-in high-temp hook & loop fastening is built into the material, making installation easy but also allowing for removal if necessary to perform maintenance or upgrades.

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  3. Heatshield Products Thoughts on 2019 and Hopes for 2020

    Heatshield Products Thoughts on 2019 and Hopes for 2020

    As 2019 enters its final hours, we find ourselves enjoying a cold libation and thinking back on what was a great year for Heatshield Products. Showing customers how to use our products in the right ways to solve heat issues, watching our Heatshield Products equipped racers run strong and take top honors, really getting things rolling on our ’66 Mustang and Ford F100 projects, we could write a whole blog about all the positives from 2019. Naturally this leads us to look ahead to what 2020 has in store for us, and what we hope to see. After some friendly discussion and jokes we decided to put a few things down on paper to share on the Heatshield Products blog.

    Take the I-M Shield Challenge!

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  4. 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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  5. Installing Your Heatshield Products Like a Pro

    Things would be a lot easier if all those exhaust pipes and manifolds were straight when it came to installing exhaust wrap or other thermal barriers to cut down on the heat radiated by the exhaust system. But all those bends are there for a reason, so you just have to soldier through it and do the best you can.

    Knowing what everyone faces when it comes to wrapping their exhaust systems in thermal barrier materials, we’ve put together some helpful videos that demonstrate how to cut and shape your Heatshield Products materials to make installation over bends in exhaust pipes and manifolds easier, along with some tips on how to actually install the product to make things easier as well.

    Heatshield Armor

    Heatshield Armor™ is one of the most versatile thermal barrier materials on the market for cutting down on heat radiated from exhaust systems. It’s so good

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