where to buy DEI thermal tape

[JNR24]

Click here for all the places around sydney that should be able to do HPC.

[JNR24]

if they dont do it, they will be able to send you to someone who will do it!

[maximumrpm]

i agree...spray it...forget about wrapping it...or put a heat sheild around your manifold instead

[Guest robertr]

re heat shield ... it's not about keeping the heat away from other bits.

The whole idea (main idea) is to keep the heat in therefore allowing the thermal energy to be used to power the turbo.

More heat in the better.

[JNR24]

Just get a nice thick HPC coat on there and it will hold more heat than your wildest dreams!

[Sydneykid]

Hi guys, For ceramic coating when the dump pipe is already on car, remove dump pipe, 1 hour, new gasket top and bottom, send away 3 days, spend $200, no car 5 days, replace dump pipe 1 hour.

Not for me, I rather spend $60 on wrap and do it all in less than an hour.

[rev210]

nothing against thermal coating, heat wrap done right works just as well. It's cheaper, easy and doesn't see your car off the road.

The rumours about thermal tape is basically due to people who don't install it properly. I have done this to many a car and the only issue I ever had was on cheap mild steel and I had not followed the instructions (first effort).

Other than the one bad experience I have had trouble free operation on several installs over many years.

Instructions:

* clean surface

* spray with ceramic based exhaust paint (VHT flameproof mat white)

* Cure the paint as per instructions

* Wrap pipe 'evenly' (very important -- and why DEI is great stuff).

Most ceramic coating I have encountered is less effective than heat wrap. I can put my hand on the dump pipe , when it's probably glowing red with heat wrap. Most coating doesn't trap this much heat. The stuff that does isn't cheap.

[Guest robertr]

good point Sydney

[Guest INASNT]

rev

did u do all that with the parts on or did u remove them and do it?

[rev210]

did it with the parts still on. Bit tricky but patience is rewarded (with a sore back and RSI)

[Cubes]

I got a quote from D&T Performance Exhaust in Adelaide to HPC the Dump pipe to the cat.. They quoted $400....

Personally I think they are a bit rich.. What is the going price for good HPC?

[JNR24]

Wow!

I got quoted $220, and thats for a double coat! (extractors to cat)

[rev210]

The price varies for coatings. The most insulative coating is very expensive. Simply ask whether you can hold the dump pipe with your hand when its on the dyno pulling a full power/boost run. If the answer is 'yep, you can feel nothing' then the coating is the good one, if not don't bother wasting your money.

[TTT]

One question for those that have done the heat wrap tape.

after a while, does it flake?

I mean do you get fibreglass dust stuff all over the engine?

what happens when it gets wet then dry and so on?

thank you.

[rev210]

gtst,

easy answer : NO

[TTT]

very good answer.

cheers.

one more question.

can the tape be used to keep heat OUT of something?

[Cubes]

Wrap/tape is the way to go by the sounds of it..

[rev210]

gtst,

easy again: YES

[Zensoku]

Supercheap Auto can order you a 25 foot roll of 1" wide Thermal Glass Header Tape which can handle up to 550 degrees celcius continuously and up to 1000 degrees celcius intermittent for $45.

[51jay]

In Brisbane the place to go is Insulation Supplies, 330 Curtin Ave (west) Eagle Farm. 07 3268 7399. They are specialists in insulating materials. I'm sure there will be an equivalent place in all the cities. They also have 10mm foam sheet with aluminium facing one side, self adhesive the other, I used a double lthickness of this to make my cold air box and it is very very effective.