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Dingo

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On with bailing wire for now.

Thursday or Friday, I'll have enough to finish the Y-pipe and I'll have the stainless ties.



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Exhaust wraps help to retain heat in your exhaust system, which increases horsepower while reducing radiant heat damage. By wrapping the header and exhaust system it maintains hotter exhaust gases, decreases the density, and allows the exhaust gas to exit the system faster! Greater exhaust scavenging is produced and lowers intake temperatures: that equals more horsepower.
 
Rodger-

Yes, but that is not a worry in a stock, low-performance engine like what is in the ST.



In higher performance motors, with large valve overlaps, if you flow the exhaust out too fast, you'll draw out much of the incoming intake charge, lean the cylinder, and burn it out.



In low heat, low performance, stock motors, header wrap will do nothing. Header wraps are great for protecting something from the heat of the headers, but they are a bad idea to wrap on the hot exhaust.
 
Dingo should also know that exhaust wrap will also destroy an exhaust system, even if it is made out of stainless steel.





Tom
 
Tom, Dingo knows that. :)



I'm already running hot enough that the whole system to the tip is purple.

I'm also a Magnaflow dealer.
 
Yeah, on the '07, the Y-pipe comes about two inches from the tranny pan for some reason (first pic.)



Kind of an engineering brain fart for Ford.
 
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