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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. Protection while Working Around Hot Components - HP Torch Blanket Demonstration

    Torch Blanket

    Demonstrating the Heat Resistant Power of the HP Torch Blanket

    The HP Torch Blanket was designed to protect components from the heat and sparks generated by welding, cutting, or grinding on metal. It’s especially useful when this kind of work is being done in close quarters near components or surfaces you don’t want to be damaged by welding splatter or sparks. Just a few sparks or seconds of extreme heat can cause serious and expensive damage to components or surface finishes. HP Torch Blanket keeps that from happening. But it has a lot of other uses that don’t involve welding spark protection

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  2. Quick Guide to Heat Shield Sleeve Products

    Quick Guide to Heat Shield Sleeve Products

    Heat shield sleeves can make the difference between a reliable vehicle and one that’s constantly having issues. Anything underhood near the engine and exhaust is subjected to constant, high-temperature ambient heat. In some situations there can be intermittent contact with a high-temperature heat source that can lead to irregular operation of components or even premature failure. Protecting wiring harnesses, fluid lines and critical linkages from heat and/or potential friction damage can stop a good day from turning into a bad one, whether you’re just going for a cruise or at the racetrack.

    Heat Shield Sleeves:

    • Protect fluid lines from heat exposure that can heat fluid inside to point of breakdown or loss of function (like fuel vapor lock)
    • Protect wir
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  3. 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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  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. 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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