DEI Titanium Header Wrap
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DEI Titanium Header Wrap
Well I finally decided to give header wrap a try. I know that there are plenty of header wrap haters out there so I will briefly state my belief. We have all seen a picture of a header on the internet that looks like swiss cheese after the header wrap was removed and what we don't hear is the header's life story. Most of the time when you inquire about the history of the swiss cheese header it was on some type of circle track or racing circuit car or the owner had a set of rusting headers that he decided to do nothing about the rust and wrap them to make them appear in good shape or the headers were made out of some very thin walled tubing. None of those examples apply to any of my driving or usage scenarios. I drive the car on nice days in the warmer months, I Autocross when I find the time(Most AX courses are 2.5-4 mins with plenty of cooling of time), the headers are not thin walled and are/were not rusted. So I personally feel comfortable using header wrap for my scenarios. IF in the occasion that I am wrong at least I will have a clear perspective and findings on this and can step up to stainless steel headers.
I have a set of Hooker long tube 2210 headers and finally had it with melted wire loom, burned/melted wire insulation and burnt spark plug wires. (If you aren't familiar with Hooker's or any other longtubes out there let me just tell you they take up a lot more room than a shorty header and are closer to brake lines, spark plug wires and random ecm/starter wires) I came upon DEI's new Titanium header wrap and looked up reviews, not many were found but most were positive. I decided to give them a shot!
DEI calls it Titanium however after reading about it it is said to be made form lava rock. I guess they just call it Titanium because it looks like it might be Titanium?
DEI's Titanium header wrap is different than their fiberglass wrap and in my opinion easier to work with. This line up requires no glue tape, no soaking the wrap in water and no spraying the wrap with whatever rattle can stuff they want to recommend. You simply wrap it around the header and fasten it with some stainless steel zip style ties. The wrap bends very easily, it is just like working with a thick cloth. The wrap cuts fairly easily and you can use a pair of good sharp scissors. The wrap is woven together and you do need to take caution in that you do not fray the sides. You can use your bare hands when wrapping and handling the headers, you will not get itchy hands since it is not fiberglass!
I had trouble finding out how much of this stuff I actually needed to wrap a pair of Long tubes. I bought the largest roll they made to make sure I would be safe, 100 feet. I ended up using 75 feet total, both sides. If I had a pair of shorty headers I could have gotten away with 50 total. The longest and worst part was sitting there pulling the header wrap through between the primary tubes. The next longest part was figuring out my plan of attack as to how I would wrap them. I am attaching pictures that should explain well enough to any future reader how I did it.
I do feel that I need to tell any member reading this that if you are going to do this be sure to get your wrap from Summit or another online dealer. I checked out Advanced Auto and AutoZone and their prices were $1.40-1.50 per foot Vs $0.80 per foot. Big price difference.
One downfall for me (not the fault of DEI) was that the large primaries (1.75") coupled with turns causes Hooker to put dents in the sides of some of the primaries. This effectively prohibits you from wrapping the tube all of the way to the header's flange. If you did try to, you will not be able to get certain bolts in. On some primaries it was a distance of 3/4" and on others it was more pronounced at almost 2" before you can start wrapping.
Did the Exhaust wrap help under hood temperatures? Yes. Did the wrap help prevent more burns? Yes. Do I recommend this wrap? Yes.
I have a set of Hooker long tube 2210 headers and finally had it with melted wire loom, burned/melted wire insulation and burnt spark plug wires. (If you aren't familiar with Hooker's or any other longtubes out there let me just tell you they take up a lot more room than a shorty header and are closer to brake lines, spark plug wires and random ecm/starter wires) I came upon DEI's new Titanium header wrap and looked up reviews, not many were found but most were positive. I decided to give them a shot!
DEI calls it Titanium however after reading about it it is said to be made form lava rock. I guess they just call it Titanium because it looks like it might be Titanium?
DEI's Titanium header wrap is different than their fiberglass wrap and in my opinion easier to work with. This line up requires no glue tape, no soaking the wrap in water and no spraying the wrap with whatever rattle can stuff they want to recommend. You simply wrap it around the header and fasten it with some stainless steel zip style ties. The wrap bends very easily, it is just like working with a thick cloth. The wrap cuts fairly easily and you can use a pair of good sharp scissors. The wrap is woven together and you do need to take caution in that you do not fray the sides. You can use your bare hands when wrapping and handling the headers, you will not get itchy hands since it is not fiberglass!
I had trouble finding out how much of this stuff I actually needed to wrap a pair of Long tubes. I bought the largest roll they made to make sure I would be safe, 100 feet. I ended up using 75 feet total, both sides. If I had a pair of shorty headers I could have gotten away with 50 total. The longest and worst part was sitting there pulling the header wrap through between the primary tubes. The next longest part was figuring out my plan of attack as to how I would wrap them. I am attaching pictures that should explain well enough to any future reader how I did it.
I do feel that I need to tell any member reading this that if you are going to do this be sure to get your wrap from Summit or another online dealer. I checked out Advanced Auto and AutoZone and their prices were $1.40-1.50 per foot Vs $0.80 per foot. Big price difference.
One downfall for me (not the fault of DEI) was that the large primaries (1.75") coupled with turns causes Hooker to put dents in the sides of some of the primaries. This effectively prohibits you from wrapping the tube all of the way to the header's flange. If you did try to, you will not be able to get certain bolts in. On some primaries it was a distance of 3/4" and on others it was more pronounced at almost 2" before you can start wrapping.
Did the Exhaust wrap help under hood temperatures? Yes. Did the wrap help prevent more burns? Yes. Do I recommend this wrap? Yes.
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How well has the wrap held up? I'm assuming you've got some miles/heat cycles on it by now. Getting ready to order some wrap for my headers.
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I have surface rusted edelbrock shorties that I want to wrap.. I guess it can't hurt anymore than they are now lol... I only drive 2000 miles a year in summer months, no rain or snow, or dirt road, etc. No leaking oil either so no chance of fire.. Can this be done on the car??
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i used this stuff on my hedman shorty headers. works really well to block the heat. the metal zip ties didn't work for me, so i bought some stainless steel band clamps. I have nothing but good things to say about this wrap. really good stuff!
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I have surface rusted edelbrock shorties that I want to wrap.. I guess it can't hurt anymore than they are now lol... I only drive 2000 miles a year in summer months, no rain or snow, or dirt road, etc. No leaking oil either so no chance of fire.. Can this be done on the car??
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I think higher exhaust temps would help the cat actually heat up.. I don't have AIR anymore so I was wondering about that too... Also, wrapping the ypipe might make less heat radiate underneath the floor pan / tranny tunnel (It's not directly under it but close by) so that might help further reduce temps there as well maybe.
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What are your thoughts on wrapping stainless steel SLP headers?
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If you feel they are putting out too much heat then yeah, go ahead and wrap them. 50' of wrap should be plenty. Buy the stainless "zip ties" at Harbor freight, they are the cheapest I have seen. I'm actually switching to a pair of Stainless Works eBay knockoffs now.
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Yeah, but I read that you are not supposed to use wrap on SS exhaust components.
I really don't want to pay the price for a ceramic coating, but I MUST reduce the under hood heat. And I don't believe that ANY spray can coating will hold up.
I really don't want to pay the price for a ceramic coating, but I MUST reduce the under hood heat. And I don't believe that ANY spray can coating will hold up.
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One of the reasons I started this thread and updated it was to try to answer the question of "will header wrap turn my header into dust?" You can search the internet and find any answer you want on this. If we were talking about wrapping thin stainless on a turbo charged race engine where all it sees is WOT then yeah, the wrap might heat treat the metal to the point where it is as fragile as glass. But when we are talking about street driven cars I don't think it could give you an issue.
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cool I just wrapped my hooker 2055s with the same stuff 4 months ago. Good to hear
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Ceramic coating is NOT better at reducing underhood temperatures. It isn't even close. Header wrap is hands down the best way to reduce radiated heat into the engine bay. Ceramic is a very distant second.
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