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. 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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  2. 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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  3. Making an Intercooler Even Cooler with Heatshield Products

    Making a Car Intercooler Even Cooler with Heatshield Products

    Adding a boost to your vehicle’s performance is popular in the performance world. However, heat happens when air is compressed by either a turbo or supercharger -- and hot air is not good for making power. That’s why many turbo and blower systems have a custom intercooler to cool the compressed air before it enters the engine. If your car’s intercooler is a water-to-air type with a reservoir tank, Heatshield Products will show you how to keep it even cooler for increased engine power.

    Our Custom Intercooler Tech

    Our Sticky Heat Shield acts as a barrier to deflect ambient heat away from the tank. Its specially formulated Kool Core™ thermal-barrier materia

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