Wastegate melting heat pad

[98gsspy]

I have the turbonetics t3/t4 manifold with a tial 38mm wastegate on a 4g64, I doubt you 4g63 guys run into the same problem because its designed for your car.

The wastegate is too close and gets too hot so it is burning away the heat pad on the hood.

What are my options
-get thicker heat pad stuff---it will just sit on the wastegate and get burned
-???

 

[absolute_DSM]

Youre right, the 4g64 is just physically taller than the 4g63, hence the contact with the hood.

You could wrap your wastegate with heat wrap unless you want it to look pretty.

 

[spoonman]

You can just remove the sound padding but, that padding also helps protect your paint from blistering if you have something that hot and close to it. Wrapping the waste gate would look like crap, or you could lay down some ceramic high heat paint on the inside or the hood if you take the padding off, this will protect your paint.

 

[Mr Peepers]

You can just remove the sound padding but, that padding also helps protect your paint from blistering if you have something that hot and close to it. Wrapping the waste gate would look like crap, or you could lay down some ceramic high heat paint on the inside or the hood if you take the padding off, this will protect your paint.

Ceramic high heat paint is not a very good insulator, I would not trust your hood's paint on it.

 

[Austin06]

I have that very same setup on my 90' and my hood actually bumps up a little on the drivers side.
I haven't driven it much, so I'm not sure what i'm going to do with that.
But, if you come up with something, post back here, that'd be helpful.