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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.

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. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Compliments are embarrassment

    Nothing is better than a compliment from your peers. And while we don’t have a celebrity on our payroll, we do have a lot of endorsements from celebrities who have used and liked our product so much, they have wanted to help us out and spread the word. Man that’s cool, and we are blessed enough to work with some really amazing people. Another honor when you get calls from fellow high performance/racing company, especially ones considered to be the top of their field! In this case, we got a call from some of the guys over at Aeromotive on a twin turbo mustang build. After turning red with embarrassment after the compliments over our Lava Exhaust Wrap, they wanted to buy a set of T6 Lava Turbo Shields. So the shields are on their way, check out a sneak peak of this grocery getter! I wonder if they like us enough to let us test drive it when they are done?

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