hotpipe to firewall clerance
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hotpipe to firewall clerance
for those of you with twins, how close is your hot pipe and lower turbo to your fire wall . i just got my twins bolted in today and the hot pipe to turbine inlet flange conection is about 1/2 inch away from the fire wall. i think mine are so close because the set i have use a spacer with external wastegate between the manafold and top turbo. the hot pipe is also wraped though.
i just dont want to actualy turn it into a fire wall
i just dont want to actualy turn it into a fire wall
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Just keep an eye on the insulation a friend of mine had his start to smolder. I think the tightest mine is to to firewall is 1". I haven't had any issues with mine.
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If you have the insulation pull it out and put some of that heat reflective stuff on the firewall! My Hotpipe was wrapped but I still had problems, although it may be fine for a time I believe it is sustained heat that causes problems with the factory insulation. I am a firm believer in coating if nothing more then keeping the rust away it is very clean, and it can't do anything but help as far as keeping the heat in!
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what would be the best thing to coat the turbine housings and hot pipe with id like to find some kind of ceramic coating. and yes i pulled all the insulation out and put aluminum heat tape all over the fire wall
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There turn-around time is more then I'd like but I think that is do to cure times between coats so they don't/won't cheat just to save time JMO.
While you have the housing off have it ported, then coated I had Brad @ Poncis Diesel Center port mine and man it sure looked much better after he worked it over, can't tell actual diff as a few things were changed at the same time but he sure did remove alot of material.
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