Securing Heat Wrap

[Scott-EP]

Right just purchased some Heat Wrap for my Exhaust as it's knocking a little bit, Gonna see if it helps at all.. But what do you Secure it with ?? Cable Tie's would melt.. What about the Metal Clips of fasten CV Boots with ?

Or are there better options..

Thanks People

[Asad]

Thats what people use the metal straps not seen annything better

[Asad]

ermm double post yeah make sure its a clean surface etc before you put the wrap on and soak in water (something of the sort)

[BigMan]

jubilee clips maybe?

[Scott-EP]

ermm double post yeah make sure its a clean surface etc before you put the wrap on and soak in water (something of the sort)

Thought the CV Clips would be ok just wasn't to sure.

Why do you have to soak it ??

[Asad]

i read somewhere on the forum its best to soak it in water or something because it frays? im sure if you search around youll find what i mean

[Scott-EP]

Ah ok mate, I'll have a look round

[Asad]

A quick read around and it seems as if you......

work outside (its like that stuff in the loft really itchy apparantly)

soak it in water as your applying helps it curve around the pipe

pull it tight as your applying

put the clamps on

let it fully dry before installing

spray it with high temp paint

BAM!

[ktl]

Wrap it round once then go under it like your doing your shoe lace, and pull really hard that way it wont go anywhere from the base. then just wrap round and around untill your happy. I use safety pins to hold them as i found the metal ties ones are poop and dont hold very well.

Also the start of your wrapping is secured and tight, it shouldnt goanywhere from that.

[durmz]

them metal ties are pretty shit in fairness. Ive got plastic cable ties holding mine on further back the exhaust, ude be surprised, with a layer of heat wrap between them and the exhaust, takes alot to melt them.

ide make sure you where clear of say the first silencer before using them though

[ktl]

yeah durmz i used normal cable ties, aslong you got layes of heatwarp underneath it does take a good beating to melt them...

[durmz]

yeah durmz i used normal cable ties, aslong you got layes of heatwarp underneath it does take a good beating to melt them...

man knows

[ktl]

I've been under that bloody car so many times to hold it in place just thought cables ties goto do it for time being.

[steed]

when they sell these kist they should sell the tool too. those metal cable ties are called banding and in order for you to get a decent tightness on them they need to be tightened using something like this:

tighten it with one of these bad boys and it is going nowhere! (i only know this as we sometimes use banding at work)

[durmz]

there not banding? bandings completely different? and you would never get a banding machine on ure exhaust lol

[steed]

yeah you would easily, just use cable banding.

[steed]

a prime example:

[durmz]

thats a pretty cool piece of kit

[micky boy]

a prime example:

Thats is a cool pice of kit i've never seen one of them befor

[Scott-EP]

Yeah we've got the tools for doing them down work also

You can do them up super tight and there annoying to get undone if done properly will just do that i think,

Thanks for all the Advice on putting it on the Exhaust though people