Wrap Headers

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Major System Category: Exhaust
Task:
Parts: Steel Ties
            Heat Wrap
Prerequisite Tasks:
Additional Costs: $71
Time Requirement: 1.5 hours
Date Started: June 1, 2015
Date Completed: June 3, 2015
The Kooks header and exhaust system (marketed by Vraptor Speedworks) arrived one afternoon. At this point in the build, I am bogged down with a bunch of nagging, putsy details that all need attention. My work schedule has been unreal, and it detracts from the time necessary to work on the car.

Partially wrapped header.

The exhaust system consists of headers, cats and the super massive cross over pipe. None of this can be finalized until I have the engine in the car. I did lay the cats and tail pipes in place over the top of the chassis (above the transaxle) and did some preliminary measurements for brackets to secure the tail pipe, but I can't do much more until I know where the headers land and work my way back from there.

This stuff is pretty easy to use.

The one thing I can do is wrap the headers. I thought I could get away with 30 feet of heat wrap. The Kooks headers require 60 feet per header. The easiest thing to do is to wrap the individual pipes coming out from the engine, then wrap from the cats back. Secure everything with steel ties and hope for the best. I've never wrapped headers before, and the when looking at the donor parts, it seems the OEM wrap is pretty cheap stuff.

Based on my preliminary measurements (i.e. holding header in space next to the cats from under the car), it is going to be very tight vis-a-vis the linkage for the cable shifter. Next item, is to fabricate a shield/housing for those pieces.