Exhaust wrap on downpipe?

[Brian1]

I am getting ready to install a Diamond Eye 4" single with downpipe this evening and was wondering if I should wrap the downpipe with exhaust wrap? I have never heard of anyone doing this and search didnt turn up much. I have some leftover from other projects, it is a thinner exhaust wrap. I have a 1" roll and a 3" roll. I have an auto tranny if that makes any difference, I know the pipe will pass very close to it.

Thanks-

 

[Big K]

It can't hurt

 

[Diesel Kinevel]

I thought about it when I did mine but i didnt

 

[stroke_smoke]

i put wrap on mine last year when i did the 6oh tranny cooler install. the tranny lines looked to close to it to me so i figured i'd insulate it.

 

[Brian1]

Well I havent made up my mind yet. The free install instructions show wrapping the downpipe on that particular kit. If nothing else I may just wrap the lower tube near the tranny since the firewall has insulation/heat reflector on part of it. (http://www.drivetrain.com/downpipeinstinstr.html)

 

[kbaxter]

I just got done pulling a tranny cooler off a 6.0 and put that on my truck along with the 6.0 intercooler.

I found the stock 6.0 exhaust at the junkyard with the other parts and got 6 pieces of really nice stainless foil sandwiching fiberglass in between and put that on my downpipe and wrapped the turbo as well.

Can't tell you how well it's working though. After working the entire week on doing all this stuff, the truck died on the way home from work.

 

[DaveBen]

Dieing on the road sounds like a bad CPS. Ford just introduced a new and cheaper one that is available at your dealer. Good luck.

Dave