My 2nd attempt at protecting the hood scoop.
The stick on heat shield had a hard time staying stuck... Next may be some high temp 2 sided tape.. If thats such a thing. Any body else try this method?

 

To answer your question no I have not.


I have the AEM intake which utilizes the hood scoop and directs the air directly to the intake. I also got heat tape off amazon and covered the entire underside of the intake (side facing engine bay) to eliminate the intake from warping. This has prohibited any sort of warping (of anything) from the turbo heat.


With the intake there is also an additional heat shield which goes over the original heat shield, maybe this has a substantial effect on blocking excess heat.


The heat tape on my intake barely stays stuck to the intake though, it just kind of "hangs on". Not sure if tape is the right solution, that being said its worked fine for my situation.

 

An added heat shield over the factory shielding works very well for protecting the scoop.
We have two options for shields, Matte black or Mirror Polished on our website.

Also If you like carbon fiber, a carbon scoop wont warp from the heat!

 

I do like your heat shields, BUT I've heard that having one installed will somehow melt the valve cover plastic cover. Any truth to that? Have you heard about this?

 

I've only seen that when someone installed a bigger turbo. I actually run a matte shield on my N18 and have had no issues with it. My car is tuned pushing more boost and I don't worry about anything melting under there! The mirror Polished ones are gorgeous if you want one that grabs attention!

 

Looks sweet! I like the matte. Hey is that strut bar solid or hollow? I've been eyeing those up. Sorry to get off subject.

 

No worries at all! They are solid bars, shoot me a private message and we can continue the convo!

 

Does the added heat shield increase the risk to the turbo? I cant imagine that there is too much extra heat under there because of the second one but I don't know. Can I take the stock heat shield off and just use the after market one? Its very similar to the ones in the pictures above.

 

I wouldn't remove the factory ones and only use aftermarket unless you heat wrap the downpipe and put a turbo blanket over the hot side of the turbo. That would be a good way to melt the valve cover if nothing was over the turbos hot side. My plan on mine is to eventually heat wrap everything. The aftermarket shield doesn't encase the turbo so the heat dissipates around the sides so your turbo wont overheat.

 

I put a WMW turbo wrap on the hot side of my turbocharger, it fits under the stock heat shield. It made a big difference in under hood temperatures.

http://www.waymotorworks.com/wmw-turbo-heat-shield.html

 

Like Dave said our turbo wrap is ideal as it wraps the turbo on the exhaust side only and prevents heat from coming up. These style wraps have been used on race cars for years, we just adapted this to the street car.

 

Are there dangers to wrapping the hot side of the turbo? I know that wrapping the header of other cars and down pipe of ours can cause excessive decay due to intense heat.

 

Decay? I don't understand, do you mean rust?

 

Perhaps. I am not entirely sure because I have no experience with it. From what I understand, when a header is wrapped (I suppose because no heat escapes) it causes problems. The link below is an example, I found it pretty quickly just by Googling it.


http://www.fiero.nl/forum/Archives/A...-2-115914.html

 

Ok, I see what you mean.

Exhaust wrap can hold water and rust the exhaust pipe, the rust forming has nothing to do with holding the heat in. A turbo wrap is not absorbent and is also not likely to get wet anyway.

 

Gotcha. So there won't be any issues by wrapping the hot side then? I am all about keeping temperatures down. I was just afraid that by keeping temperatures down overall, it could come at the cost of keeping something specific hotter than it should be. Such as the heat shield over the turbo heat shield mentioned above.