Wrapping ceramic coated headers?
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Car: 1984 Trans Am
Engine: Built chevy 350
Transmission: TCI Built 700r4
Axle/Gears: 3.73 posi 10 bolt
Wrapping ceramic coated headers?
Has anyone tried wrapping there ceramic coated header with header tape? Did it help reduce under hood temps? Do you think it would be worth it?
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Car: 1987 IROC 1991 RS
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Re: Wrapping ceramic coated headers?
Its mostly done for racing, but AFAIK it could damage the ceramic coating on the headers. Your cooling system sounds fine, I read your other post. The cowl hood should do the trick for you instead of header wrap.
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Re: Wrapping ceramic coated headers?
Wrapping ceramic coated headers would not be a good idea. And I do not agree that it is a bad thing to wrap uncoated headers. I ran header wrap on my edelbrock shorties for 6 years and 50,000 miles and they looked new when I took them off and unwrapped them. I ended up selling them to a guy who was ecstatic to get them because they were so clean. The key is preparation. You can't wrap bare headers. I sand blasted mine and painted them with the expensive good header paint, then I wrapped them. I'd do it again in a heart beat. If you put wrap over unpainted and rusty junk headers, thats what you'll get is rusty junk headers. If you wrap clean and painted headers, that's what you'll have is clean good headers.
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