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The previous blanket was starting to break down, and it was nowhere near as thick and thoroughly engineered as the PTP Turbo Lava Blanket. On the car, the difference is tremendous. For starters we used to not be able to place our hand over the previous blanket after a dyno pull for more than a second or two. By contrast, you can keep your hand on the PTP Turbo Blanket for a very long time, if not indefinitely (depending on the application and power level) and still not get burned! That should scream good news for cars with top-mounted turbos which rest an inches away from a closed hood (like with our Supra), because they don’t have to worry about their hood paint breaking down.
The blanket is so thick that it can also be an aesthetic enhancement because it sure makes that hot side of our Precision CEA 6766 turbo look pretty big!
Here is the PTP Lava Turbo Blanket installed on our Project MKIV Supra. It’s been on the car now for over six months and the blanket still looks as good as new, and it's even been through one oil misting situation from a loosening oil feed line already.
After a mild drive, we left the car idling and took some temps with our pyrometer. Here we see the temperature of the PTE CEA 6766's center cartridge, which is well north of 300 degrees F—all the more reason to run very high quality synthetic oil (we've been pumping Royal Purple into our 2JZ-GTE's veins).
Behind the turbine housing, and right around the V-band clamp, where it’s not either covered by the blanket or Swain Tech coated, the temperature is registering over 350 F with the car idling.Check out our video on the next page where we take the temperature shortly after a boosted run. You'll be impressed to see how well the PTP Turbo Blanket fares.
