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Originally Posted by Mazdabater
First off I'm sorry for the rough description, pretty sure I have seen this on a couple of cars and have been trying to find out what the stuff is, it's like an aluminium blanket with fibreglass in the middle insulation material. Looks like it's reasonably rigid though.
Basically what I want to do is get ahold of this stuff, so I can build sort of a box around my turbo, exhaust manifold and dump pipe out of it so it blocks all the heat for escaping into my engine bay. My theory is lower engine bay temps = lower intake temps = better everything. Would also give the cops less to look at when I end up getting pulled over for an RBT which 99% of the time ends up with, can we have a look under your bonnet over here.
Does anyone know what this stuff is called and is this a good/bad idea
Discuss.
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heat shielding on most factory cars is a stamped steel casing with an asbestos/packing core. asbestos is still one of the best materials for this purpose so dont eat it. or grind it down. to make your own similar material, weave together off the shelf heat wrap tape into sheets and wet down before sandwiching between sheets of metal then you can rivet it into place to hold it permanently