Exhaust Heat Wrap.

[StealthX]

Hey all, I've got my turbo manifold wrapped in fibreglass heat wrap, its bin on for about a month now, it smoked a bit when I first started it up but was fine until yesterday.

I was reaching over my motor and knocked the oil line at the top of the turbo and oil came pissing out, all over the manifold (oh joy).

Now its smoking like f**k cos the heat's burning the oil off.

My question: Will this last long? I can see it taking a while to burn off, but do you guys think it'll stop smoking eventually?

Also, is it VERY dangerous? I can't see much risk of starting a fire, cos it's just smoking u know but wanna make sure...

Thanks.

[noone]

BUGGER!!!!

At least you know they wont rust now

I doubt just normal driving will start a fire but is hard to say really

cant offer ya much help maybe trying to clean it out a bit using like one

of those coin op carwash thingo's

especially if ya got one near by?

[r33cruiser]

Dont worry about it mate. I had a similar issue.

. I just wiped over it with a rag, and left it. Didnt smoke for longer than a day

[StealthX]

Thanks for the replies...

cleaned everything just then, degreaser and a high pressure water hose (when the motor was cold of course) and it's smoking alot less now...

Took it for a spin around the block after it was all dry, and a bit of a boost when it was warm to get the heat into the manifold and turbo.

I'll keep an eye on it...

[JonnoHR31]

aslong as the excess is wiped away then it shouldnt take long at all to burn off. smells great until it does tho

[JET-25L]

Ha. I painted my cam covers and changed the seals at the same time and somewhere along the line the rear half moon seal blew out and was pumping oil onto the exhaust. Just so happened to be that this was the same time i changed ecu's and we were doing a road tune as well so gave us a lot of grief when it started smoking hard. Fixed it straight away as defo not something to be left but the oil was on the heatwrapped dump and front pipe as well. It just smoked for a day or so and stopped.

Don't stress:)

Edited December 1, 2009 by JET-25L

[West]

The heat of your manifold or dump will burn off all of the oil that stuck on the heatwrap. After a day or two it'll be fine but you've shorten the life (expired?) of your heat wrap material.

When the material died, it becomes brittle.