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Originally Posted by mlee
Glad to hear you got this fixed Greg... I really hate the plastic zip tie thing. Just a recipe for disaster.
Nice to have a shop that takes care of you too  |
Not an issue with the stock exhaust manifolds...I'm sure the added heat with how close the headers are were the root cause of the tie wrap failures or they got broken during installation.
I always coat my headers and also wrap near. On my cars with coated headers, within a short time, you could touch the headers after running...yes, still hot, but, WAY lower temp and radiant heat off them. Might have saved my Firebird years ago from burning up when I kicked rods out at almost 150mph and oil got on them even with an engine diaper.
Surprised so few guys get headers high temp coated...not saying you can lay plastic loomed wiring against coated headers, just saying it greatly lowers the outside temp of the piping.