I did a small wrap close to my starter and the one primary that is closest to my Borgenson power steering unit. Pretty easy to do the wrap tight with the headers out of the car. Only time will tell!

 

Had to do when in car not as easy. Yeh my header is super close to borgeson also. Actually had to grind some of nonesstianal steering box metal to fit. I guess we will see if it impacts steering box. May need to do that side too

 

A cheap power steering cooler will save your steering box. As others have recommended getting your headers ceramic coated will reduce your under hood temps. I had mine coated a couple of years ago. It was only a couple hundred snd made a big difference in under hood temps

 

If you drive your car for any distance that lets the engine get up to full temperature you will be roasting the headers alive. I’ve changed out headers for customers that had been wrapped and after some time began to leak.

No kidding. The headers had numerous pin holes and were as thin as paper. That even a weakling like me was able to crush the tubes with my bare hands, way easier than crushing a beer can.

The exhaust heat needs to dissipate, not held in. The wrap makes sure there’s no heat escaping and the metal is slowly and surely degraded until it’s no longer there.

If you only drive the car for short distances and, then you can probably get away with using a header wrap indefinitely.

Just don’t take any day trips

Z

 

Have headers Powder Coated, if not already

 

Ceramic coated headers will lower your under hood temps and make the headers last longer. I ran a pair of ceramic coated headers on my daily driven corvette for almost 20 years, and the headers never leaked and were GTG when I finally sold the my corvette to make some room for a couple more motorcycles in the garage.

 

On my 65 fastback, I kept burning up starters yearly with the headers, so I made a heat shield next to the starter with a couple of L brackets on it and hose clamped on the header, looked OK and never had to replace starter again for that reason.

 

I built a stainless steel heat shield for my steering box.

 

Could you wrap your starter?

 

I wrapped my starter and the part of the header immediately near the starter.

I don't like having headers. They make everything hot. I don't believe in bullshit coatings. That's saying I'm committing myself to one set of headers for life on my garage queen. Our cars have a parachute for an engine bay. Work on getting heat out of the engine bay. If you have headers you should have heat extractors. That's the serious answer to managing heat. Anything else is a waste of money.

On a turbo car, you do wrap. The pressure delta across the turbine wheel goes up exponentially, the hotter you are at the nozzle. You hold the heat in, you get better spool, better boost holding capability at higher turbine speeds, keeping you in a more efficient place on the compressor map.

Heat is a tool. Can you bend it to your will?

 

I have ceramic coated headers. good Idea on ps cooler. Will have to check on it

 

Mine are quoted the wrapped didn’t really make any difference on the eye alert still here in the rubber bind after gets hot. Hopefully the roller idler will take care of that.

For the saginaw pump is return line similar to the Ford where it’s not high-pressure you can just splice into it and run the cooler from that just curious

 

Mine are quoted the wrapped didn’t really make any difference on the eye alert still here in the rubber bind after gets hot. Hopefully the roller idler will take care of that.

For the saginaw pump is return line similar to the Ford where it’s not high-pressure you can just splice into it and run the cooler from that just curious

Yeah, that’s how I installed mine. Cut into the return line and ran hose to a small PS cooler mounted behind the valance. Makes a huge difference in the temperature of the pump and steering box.

 

The roller idler got rid of binding rubber noise. didnt notice much in steering. But have out only a few times. So not a lot of to contrast. Left the wrap on.