Exhaust / header wrap, good or bad Options

[Joe Ricard]

So while I was laying there under my car (I just do that) while swapping out the transaxle I noticed something.
I looked down the SSI pipes and saw nice clean (like perfect burning plug color) from the exhaust port all the way to the line where the heat shroud stops. After that the pipe is black or very dark brownish black out to the flange.

So would wrapping the rest of the pipe in header wrap maintain the heat and extend the better burn all the way through the pipe? Also will wrap the Bursch collector pipes.

Bottom line will it make more power!

[Cap'n Krusty]

QUOTE (Joe Ricard @ Aug 3 2005, 05:36 AM)

So would wrapping the rest of the pipe in header wrap maintain the heat and extend the better burn all the way through the pipe? Also will wrap the Bursch collector pipes. Bottom line will it make more power!

The "burn" takes place in the cylinder, NOT in the pipes. If the factory engineers had thought they could wring more power by wrappint the pipes, they'd have done it. It is, afterall, cheap to do. Frankly, I think the idea is wacked. The Cap'n