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Originally Posted by Ron in SoCal
Brendon I have a friend running rubber on one side of the motor and poly on the other. Also have seen a mix of poly on the motor and rubber on the trans tail housing. One thing to with consider is NVH, which makes a street car less fun to drive.
I'm running poly on both the engine and trans and it makes for solid feeling drivetrain and no issue (for me) on the street.
DEI makes some great heat products you might want to check into:
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourcei...ng+header+wrap
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Originally Posted by 71RS/SS396
Standard aluma-ceramic coating doesn't really insulate the heat, it aids in dissipating it quicker but it really needs air flow to do that. The idiling in traffic or when you shut the car off is likely when the melting is going on. The only coating that is going to offer any insulating qualities is a full ceramic but it's twice as much money to do. If your going to put wrap on the headers only wrap it in the area where you need it, wrap holds moisture and heat so it will ultimately ruin the coating and header. I would try to make a heat shield and see how that works out.
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Originally Posted by waynieZ
Can you make an aluminum heat shield and slip it on the motor mount bolt to hold it? It might keep enough heat away from the mount. If it helped you could have it reflective coated later to up the protection.
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Thanks, guys. Yeah, I have plenty of DEI products in my engine bay already. All my fuel lines, brake lines, etc. I also currently have my engine mount wrapped with header wrap to protect it and it's still melting through this. I can try a metal heat shield but there isn't much room at all, which is why I'm really looking for an effective thermal barrier coating. I'm fine with forking over the $$ for it as long as it will work. (the company local to me assured me their product would drop my engine heat by 60% with their triple coating and I'm still having these issues) I just don't know where to go for a true full ceramic coating, other than the Swaintech link I provided in my OP.