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How Can You Reduce Heat Inside Your Vehicle?

Reducing heat inside your vehicle increases your engine’s efficiency while improving your overall safety. There are a number of products available that work hard to beat the heat so your engine doesn’t have to. By taking the following measures, you can help your car run smarter and faster.

Install Thermo Guard FR

Protect from radiant heat with the bonus benefits of reducing sound, absorbing vibration, and providing an extra layer of insulating padding. Featuring a high-tech foil heat barrier, Thermo Guard FR blocks more than 90% of radiant heat on the sly. It’s only ¼” thick, providing high performance without a lot of bulk. Thermo Guard FR isn’t just for race cars, but for trucks, RVs, buses, cars, aircraft, and homes–anywhere you need quality, dependable insulation.

Add a Clamp-On Heat Shield

The Clamp-On Heat Shield, the ultimate in high-tech protection, blocks over 95% of the damaging radiant heat of your vehicle’s exhaust system. Kits come with everything you need, including all clamps and new stainless stand-offs, and can be installed in minutes. Clamp-On Heat Shields are available in one, two and three foot lengths to fit a variety of vehicles.

By adding these three improvements to your vehicle, you will greatly decrease the temperatures under the hood. A variety of additional heat reflective products are available to improve performance, depending on your vehicle and application.

Wrap Headers

Exhaust Wrap is a simple yet innovative way to create more horsepower and reduce under-hood temperatures in your vehicle. When you wrap your car’s exhaust headers, you help it maintain hotter exhaust gases. Like hot liquids, hot gases have a deceased density, causing them to move at higher speeds. When your exhaust exits at a faster rate, your engine runs cooler–and more efficiently–because the heat is concentrated where it counts!

What Exhaust Wrap Can Do For Your Car?

You’ve invested a lot of time, money, and heart into your classic car, and you want to do whatever you can to protect and preserve the engine. Car shows, parades, or just driving around the block on a sunny day are occasions to celebrate and enjoy with a car that will stand the test of time!

There are many ways exhaust wrap can help your vintage treasure run like new for years.

Reduce Underhood Temperatures

By keeping the engine bay cool and maintaining a cold intake, exhaust wrap extends the life of your car. Heat from the engine’s manifold can warm up the air that goes into the intake, putting more strain on the engine and decreasing the power. When it comes to your classic car, it pays to keep you cool–with exhaust wrap!

Preserve Engine Components

An engine fire, of course, can mean certain death to your classic car and endanger your own safety as well. Rubber lines containing brake fluid and coolant can erode, and in extreme heat, even steel-braided replacement cables can pop open. Revving up that old powerhouse may suddenly cause a line to explode, resulting in fluid spraying your engine and igniting a blaze. Exhaust wrap defends against these situations without compromising your engine’s ability to hum along like a dream.
Allow the Engine to Run More Efficiently

A “healthy” engine pump, like a healthy heart, works more efficiently than an unhealthy one, improving energy output with less effort and wear. Think of it this way: Just as cold syrup straight from your pantry flows more slowly, so does cool exhaust. Heat the syrup up, and it runs quickly, dissipating over a larger area (a full plate of pancakes) at a faster rate.

By spreading the metal’s heat, the insulating wrap keeps exhaust flowing faster by decreasing its density. By providing just the right amount of insulation, exhaust insulating wrap keeps the hot exhaust gases at just the right temperatures to move quickly and efficiently through the exhaust system all while retaining lower intake temperatures. This efficient process puts less strain on your classic car’s engine, allowing it to run smoothly in the moment while also prolonging its life.

How Exhaust Wrap Can Increase Performance?

Exhaust wrap protects your hands from those hot-engine burns–reason enough to use it in your high-powered racing vehicle. But did you know it also improves the overall performance of your car? Exhaust wrap gives you an edge on the track by making the most of your engine’s capabilities.

Keeps exhaust gases heated up so they flow more efficiently

By providing just the right amount of insulation, exhaust insulating wrap keeps the hot exhaust gases at just the right temperatures to move quickly and efficiently through the exhaust system all while retaining lower intake temperatures.

Just as cold syrup straight from your pantry flows more slowly, so does cool exhaust. Heat the syrup up, and it runs quickly, dissipating over a larger area (a full plate of pancakes) at a faster rate. By spreading the metal’s heat, insulating wrap keeps exhaust flowing faster by decreasing its density.

Increases scavenging inside the exhaust system

The faster flow of exhaust dramatically improves engine performance by minimizing the pumping loss and increasing the scavenging effect: the rate at which hot exhaust gases move through the system. Insulating wrap keeps the exhaust warm, which allows the cylinder to pump with less resistance.

A “healthy” pump, like a healthy heart, works more efficiently than an unhealthy one, improving energy output with less effort and wear. Easier scavenging increases power by allowing more space for the AFR (Air/Fuel Ratio). A better AFR combined with a smoother, faster flow results in more power for your car.

Reduces surface temperature, which can help protect other components in the engine compartment

Red hot exhaust is a real danger to your engine. Components like rubber lines containing brake fluid and coolant can erode, and in extreme heat, even steel-braided cables can pop open. When revving your engine on the track, you may find yourself with an exploding line, resulting in fluid coming in contact with your engine and starting a fire. Exhaust wrap defends against these situations without compromising your engine’s ability to perform at top-notch speeds.

Reduces temperatures under the hood

The intake going into an engine usually needs to be cold. But as a racer, you know that going around that track drives up the heat! The heat from the engine’s manifold/header can warm up the air going into the intake, decreasing the power. Exhaust wrap keeps the entire engine bay, and thus your intake, cooler.

More Horsepower Means More Heat. Protect Your Engine With These Three Inexpensive Hacks.

If you’re adding power to your truck, you’re adding heat. It’s no secret that radiant heat can compromise expensive engine components. Thankfully, high-performance race car drivers have been mitigating and managing heat for years, and off road enthusiasts can use the same products to prevent damage to their trucks and Jeeps. Here are a few easy-to-install and inexpensive products to protect your rig from heat’s harmful effects (and even harness it for a more efficient engine).

Modifying your truck can be expensive but protecting your investment (and increasing your truck's efficiency) doesn't have to be, thanks to a number of simple solutions that are not only easy to install, but easy on your wallet.

Radiant heat, caused by the friction created inside a working engine, can wreak havoc on your truck's wires, hoses and cables. Without the right insulation, extreme temperatures can and will damage these vital components, and it won't be long before your repair bills begin to add up fast. While a number of products on the market can help mitigate this issue, it's hard to find one that's more cost-effective or easy to install than Thermo-Tec's Express Sleeves. This potent combination of Mylar foil and insulating material reflects more than 90 percent of radiant heat up to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Hook-and-loop strips (think Velcro) that run the length of the sleeves make for quick and simple installation, meaning you can save money by doing this yourself. Plus, they look sharp.

Containing more of your engine's heat increases your vehicle's efficiency, since hotter exhaust gasses move more quickly through the exhaust system (due to lower density), helping your engine draw in more fresh air with less work. One of the ways you can achieve this is to wrap your headers and exhaust system with products that are specially designed to withstand punishing temps while keeping the heat inside your engine where it belongs. One of their favorites is Thermo Tec's Rogue Series Carbon Fiber Exhaust Wrap. Thermo-Tec builds this product using material forged within some of the hottest places on Earth—volcanoes—so you know it'll hold up. It's super-strong, sleek in appearance and fits the way you need it to, thanks to incredible pliability. It's built to withstand continuous, direct temps up to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit.

Sometimes, insulation products don't just protect your vehicle's parts—they makes your drive safer and more pleasant and enjoyable, too. Long hours on the road can add up to a lot of heat, sound and vibration behind the wheel, making long trips less than pleasant. Deploying the right heat, vibration and sound dampening products can keep you cooler and more comfortable.

One of the most popular sound-and-heat-control products is Thermo-Tec's Suppressor Heat and Sound Mat. Thin, light and durable, the mat is made up of a heat-defying foil surface and polyethylene film. Use it in your engine compartment and under your floorboards for better heat retention and sound dampening.

For more than 30 years, Thermo-Tec has built its reputation on providing the best in sound and heat insulation for high-performance vehicles, so they know a thing or two about engineering products that can handle extreme conditions. You can trust that their solutions are affordable and built to last.