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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. Why It’s Important to Insulate and Keep Heat in Your Exhaust System

    Why It’s Important to Insulate and Keep Heat in Your Exhaust System

    Insulating a vehicles exhaust system has multiple performance enhancing benefits, especially on turbocharged or supercharged vehicles. When it comes to performance improvements, the key factor is exhaust gas velocity (EGV) which ties into exhaust gas temperature (EGT). On the other side, insulating the exhaust system significantly reduces the amount of heat radiated by the exhaust system inside the engine compartment and underneath the vehicle. This reduces the amount of damaging heat exposure components near the exhaust system are subjected to, leading to longer component life and proper function without heat being a major factor.

    Follow along as we break down the benefits of keeping more heat in your exhaust system.

    Turbocharged Applications

    On turbocharged applications, insulating the “hot side” of the turbocharger and keeping more heat in helps in multiple ways.

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  2. New Updated Stealth Turbo Shield

    New Updated Stealth Turbo Shield

    An unshielded turbo is about more than just leaving horsepower on the table (or in the garage might be more accurate). Beyond the unrealized horsepower, an unshielded turbo also creates significant underhood heat that can wear on components, heat vital fluids to the point that they don’t function properly and cause intake air temperatures (IATs) to rise enough that the computer will start pulling timing from the engine. That last one is a doozey, because your engine’s output could drop by 100 horsepower in the blink of an eye.

    Heatshield Products offers the most complete line of turbo shields/blankets to fit a variety of turbo housings, applications and situations, from street to marine. With the popularity of turbos climbing steadily in the last few years, we have responded by improving our

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  3. Exhaust Gas Temps, Turbos, Turbo Shields and Making Power

    Exhaust Gas Temperature

     

    Exhaust Gas Temperature, Turbos, Turbo Shields, and Making Power

     

    You’ll see us talking up using Heatshield Products exhaust wrap and/or insulation to keep more heat in your exhaust system for multiple reasons. First, using an automotive heat shield product helps to cut down your exhaust gas temperature, which can increase underhood temperatures and interior heat. Second, keeping more heat in the exhaust system helps increase performance, especially in turbocharged applications. You may be wondering, how does it increase

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  4. Turbonetics 5th Gen Camaro Turbo Install Using Heatshield Products

    In a recent blog on thermal barriers and turbo systems, we talked about the different areas where thermal barriers can be employed when installing a turbocharger system to increase turbo performance, while at the same time reducing the effects of increased ambient heat on components near the turbo feed and exhaust piping.


    Following up on that, we thought it would be useful to share a recent story covering the installation of Turbonetics 50-state legal turbocharger system for the 2010-2015 5th Gen Camaro SS equipped with the LS3 that will be published in an upcoming issue of Car Craft magazine. In the story, you can see applications of various thermal barriers from Heatshield Products

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