The Best Wrap for Difficult Spots! Your Car Needs This!

[@Grenadieros]

May i ask why not golden tape on that plastic hose too?

[@obtrunco]

Do you have a link to a video showing the temperature differences?

[@bradbird8913]

Its great to see that you are a canadian company.

[@matthewdaniels7462]

As a 3rd degree black belt and car head I enjoyed the karate chop more than. I should have. Send me some and I'll do a vid on the Ghibli and STI. Running dei heat tape at the moment and curious about your product .

[@smith0426]

I have a dilemma, which maybe someone who has some hard evidence from testing, or is just very knowledgeable about thermodynamics can answer. This wrap makes perfect sense for intakes because the outside air will always be cooler than the engine bay, so reflecting radiant heat and giving insulation against convection are desirable. My target though is my charge pipe, (bmw n55 engine) which is anodized black aluminum. The charge pipe has warm/hot air running through it since it's after the turbo. On the one hand, the aluminum is excellent at dissipating heat via convection, so I wouldn't want to insulate that at all, and the black anodized may help slightly with it's ability to radiate. On the other hand, those same properties will make the charge pipe absorb heat more readily from the hot engine bay. So I'm not sure if it's helping or hurting. I think the best solution for my case would be a thermally conductive tape that gives no insulation but reflects away radiant heat.

[@peterlattimore6013]

I just finished wrapping my charge pipe and here for confirmation. What I decided was to insulate the black anodized pipe like yours with 3 layers. 1st Fibre cloth then 2nd Electrical tape to contain longevity of the cloth and a clean surface for the reflective tape 3rd. Everything looks tight and snug fit, as the electrical tape was stretched and overlapped 50/50. Then tide off with CV boot wire straps.

[@smith0426]

​@@peterlattimore6013 I ended up wrapping the charge pipe in reflect-a-gold just to reflect radiant heat

[@peterlattimore6013]

@@smith0426 while you're here... lol... Would you have preferred to have done what I did? My Engine bay (G70) us renowned for retaining extreme heat. Decided against turbo blankets because they often cause issues regarding varnish on the bearing. Would love to do anything more if you've got ideas.

[@smith0426]

I can't say if your method would be preferred or not, it depends if the air going through the charge pipe is cooler or warmer than the air around it. For turbo blanket, mine came in two pieces, one for the exhaust portion running into the turbo, and one for the actual turbo. I ended up just doing the exhaust portion which should cut down a lot of the engine bay heat but not cause longevity issues for the turbo. I intended to wrap both but the turbo was so hard to get to I gave up, so I'm sort of post rationalizing that this way was better lol (and maybe it is)

[@pabloangelherrera8064]

Gains? Heat variation?

[@bettywhipz6346]

Bro did you just ask gains....

[@hanynowsky]

No gains but recovery of lost HP. Usually 5hp out of 200hp.

[@AbelsGamingAdventures]

Metal ties

[@AzNightmare]

*Does the gold or silver reflect better?*

[@goldilocksautomotive1679]

They reflect similarly, but the white gold is a bit more reflective because it doesn't have the polyimide layer on top of it.

[@dannyj6584]

@@goldilocksautomotive1679 what’s better for intake hoses and box

[@JosephLongworth-m2w]

Looks like they went out of business