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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. Why Lower Intake Air Temperature Is So Important In Today’s Engines

    Intake Air Temperature

    Why Lower Intake Air Temperature Is So Important In Today’s Engines

     

    When it comes to a modern engine’s performance, keeping your intake air temperature (IAT) as low as possible is crucial for maximum engine output. This is why Heatshield Products has developed special materials and kits specifically for keeping IATs cooler by insulating the vehicle’s air intake system.

    Today’s modern sensors are more sophisticated and sensitive to whatever data they are recording, and a modern fuel-injected powerplant’s

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  2. No, the General Motors LS V8 is NOT a Copy of the Ford Windsor V8

    LS V8 Engine

    No, the General Motors LS V8 Engine Series is NOT a Copy of the Ford Windsor V8

    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

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  3. Lava Exhaust Wrap Install and Test

    Lava Exhaust Wrap Install and Test

    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

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  4. Why a Flexible Exhaust Wrap is Best

    There’s more to picking the right exhaust wrap for your application than just looking at the temperature rating of a given product. You’ve got to be aware of a product’s resistance to water, oil, and other solvents things on a car are typically exposed to, durability against friction of something rubbing up against the wrap, but one that often gets overlooked is the exhaust wrap’s ability to maintain an optimal amount of flexibility, even after numerous heat cycles, exposure to the elements, etc. That’s where Heatshield Products has spent extra development time in the design and makeup of our entire flexible exhaust wrap line.

    The reason this is important is due to the natural laws of physics. When the metal piping of an exhaust system and headers heats from the hot exhaust gasses passing through it, that metal expands. In the reverse, after the engine is shut off,

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