Hi there

I'm driving a Santa Fe V6 2.7L AWD. I'm thinking of wrapping my headers to bring out the heat. Wat do you guys think?

Regards

Lester

 

that's not a bad idea.
1) it keeps the heat out of the engine bay, which helps if you have a cai.
2) it keeps the heat in the exhaust gas flow, which helps maintain its velocity. this also helps if you get an cat-back.

if you get a cai, wrap that, too.

 

Cons -

1.) Keeping all that heat trapped inside your headers will speed up the corosion process and you will eventually have to replace them quicker than without the wrap

2.) Looks gay

 

Do NOT do this on stock exhaust manifolds.

Stock exhaust manifolds are made of Cast Iron. They cannot withstand the additional heat/cooling that happens when you use exhaust wrap. Your cast iron manifolds will crack VERY quickly.

I would reccomend you heat wrap your CAI/Intake, and then wrap over the heat wrap with Heat Reflective wrapping.

 

If you decide to wrap them, check out summitracing.com thats the cheapest place I found to buy the wrap you would need.