wastegate keeps burning my hood

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Old Jun 1, 2014 | 11:05 PM
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Default wastegate keeps burning my hood

When I look under my hood my car always burns up my hood with the wastegate I was wondering if I can put something under the hood like a heat shield or cut through it. Any other Ideas
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Old Jun 1, 2014 | 11:16 PM
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I hate to assume but I'm guessing it is because you do not have a dump tube on your wastegate. Have the dumptube made so that it points down and not towards your radiator or hoses. A pic of your setup will also help.
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Old Jun 2, 2014 | 01:44 AM
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A heat shield is your best bet.

the gold foil works well but it isn't the cheapest stuff around, although you need such a small piece it shouldn't cost too much.

also dei now offers their lava/titanium wraps in adhesive backed sheets, we've had good results with it on our race car.

stay away from the cheap silver ****. the adhesive sucks and the bond between the material and adhesive is **** poor. it doesn't stand up to heat at all. after less than a month of track use the material was charred, it had pulled off of it's adhesive and the adhesive was cooked to what we stuck it to. I ended up having to bead blast the panels to get the adhesive off.
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Old Jun 8, 2014 | 05:32 PM
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Default Re: wastegate keeps burning my hood

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I hate to assume but I'm guessing it is because you do not have a dump tube on your wastegate. Have the dumptube made so that it points down and not towards your radiator or hoses. A pic of your setup will also help.
I have a dump tube facing down its just that when my wastegate gets hot it burns/melts the hood so the waste gate is always like blackish
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Old Jun 8, 2014 | 06:40 PM
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I think I would've had a hood do that just once before I tried at least one thing out of desperation.
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