We had amazing success with Heatshield Products in our Project Viper, using their HP StickyShield on the firewall and transmission tunnel, and the HeatShield Armor on the exhaust pipes themselves. We used the same formula on Project FD RX-7 Restomod with HP StickyShield in Part-23.
We covered the top of our downpipe in ½” thick HeatShield Products Armor and secured it with thermal ties.
Mounted in the car, there is very little exposed exhaust manifolds, tubes, or downpipes. All of this thermal management will improve our turbo’s performance, make components live longer, and make it easier to keep the cabin cool thanks to the Heatshield Products HP StickyShield on the firewall. We are also using the JP3 FD3S 13B-REW Lower Intake Manifold (LIM) Block Off Plate to keep debris and random falling bolts out of our engine.
We use more HeatShield Armor on the downpipe to further keep the exhaust energy up and heat from soaking the chassis and drivers compartment.
With all of the heat shielding installed, the exhaust system was now complete. We installed aerospace-grade stainless steel -4AN fittings from Brown and Miller Racing Solutions to our Turbosmart wastegates and 3D printed some caps to protect them until we could make the lines.
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Billy, the exhaust looks fantastic. Every update gets us close to the full reveal of this monster!
Thank you! I’m a bit behind on articles so there will be more updates that will come out soon. The car is close to firing up!
I see you’re also a glutton for punishment wrenching on cars while laying on our backs, ha! Excited to see this up and running with all the extensive and detailed work on it.