Battery/whatever wrap kits are cool, but they are only a band-aid solution. The adhesive on heat wrap will eventually give and the wrap will come loose. The overall look is pretty bad. Again, the best solution is to relocate the components around the turbo location.

 

Best things to do....

1)Get a Dry Cell battery.
2)Get a heat blanket for the battery, although IMHO you don't need it. After getting my turbo nice and hot, my battery plastic was nowhere NEAR melting point, and that was the hottest the turbo is gonna get.

I highly recommend #1 though....for any turbo car with the battery still under the hood.

 

what do you guys use to wrap your a/c lines to protect it from heat?

 

use aluminum foil, use heat wrap...use anything.
I've done both They both work, Battery in trunk FTW.

Get this battery so you have so much room it won't matter

PC680MJ 15.4 lbs instead of double that like a reg. battery

-Greg

 

The kit comes with some thermal heat wrap that you are to use to wrap the AC lines. It works pretty good. I cut my heat shield and put it on and the battery, fuse box, and AC lines do not get that hot..

 

My first heat shield was improperly cut and mounted so it cracked around the mounting points, so I bought a brand new heat shield, had it cut and mounted properly and I have no heat issues.

 

thanks for the help guys unfortunatly I don't have the Greddy kit, I am using the inline pro kit and they didn't have any thermal wrap. I may try foil paper for the lines and try something else for the battery and fuse box.

 

Black header wrap. Works VERY well, and looks a LOT better than using reflective wrap.

 

thanks nfrs2000nyc, by any chance do you know where I can get some.

 

If you can touch it, it's not hot enough to worry about. I ran my kit for hours in 90 degree weather, and my IR thermo said the battery, and fusebox where below 200.