I'm thinking of getting one of these, just think it looks a whole lot better than the standard heat shield and will do a better job in keeping in the heat. They are of the Garrett brand so quality will not be an issue.

What do you guys think?

Even a group buy??? if so ive got 2 down so far.

Rob...

LINK: http://www.horsepowerinabox.com/HPIAB2/category60_1.htm

I was under the impression that keeping metal hot for too long will cause it to get brittle? I have heard many bad things about stuff like exhaust heat wrap, I'm assuming this is the same principal?

I diddnt like this statement on the website " As these Blankets are designed to retain heat within the turbo, it is recommended that the blanket be removed for vehicle "Garaging" as retaining the heat without the water/oil circulation may cause long term reduced life for the turbo (this is particularly relevant when used with non-water cooled plain bearing units)."

im not sure it would be an issue on the turbo on these cars...they continue to get coolant flow after the engine is shutdown and i think they make that statement in terms of shutting a car down with a redhot turbo....turbo's always develop fractures in the turbine housing at various pionts and its rarely an issue...if they could develop the metalurgy of the exhaust housing to the piont where it could handle being heat to red hot and down to cold over and over with out some crystalization and fracturing turbo's would cost mega buck....

my 2c's.....

I`ve heard that they promote corrosion as when it cools moisture gets trapped btw the wrap and the turbo.

I used one on my ED falcon and it helped in reducing lag and stopped the brake booster from melting... when I got the engineers report done I had to get rid of the blanket and use a steel cover.

So from my experience they are good for reducing a bit of lag

How much rob

its really interesting as these items work really well, I had one on my 76 model celica, you can actually touch the turbo bag after driving the car, and not burn yourself. they do work well at reducing lag

I saw this on rob's car at the hpf dyno day.. looked trick