Protecting coolant hose

[Frosty]

As i have now got the turbo mounted on my engine it looks like 1 of the heater matrix hoses is going to be quite close to the exhaust elbow so i was wondering if there is anything that i can wrap around the hose to help protect it from the heat?

[ozonehostile]

if you wrap your manifold and exhaust it should keep the temps down enough to keep your heater pipes safe, I never had problems with my turbo setup passing mm's away from coolant hoses

[Piggy]

I have a piece of bracket going down from the intercooler bolt to keep the pipe away as I found it was actually resting on the turbo hot side

looked like it had been like that for a long time!

[Frosty]

i have found this and wondered if putting the coolant pipe through it would be any good

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290663223378?v...014wt_1159

[DarkInferno]

not going to do much but reduce the air gap between the pipe and the exhaust. I suppose you could suspend the pipe inside it... something that wouldn't conduct the heat like mad would also be an idea.

[Frosty]

I might give this stuff a try. The pipe isn't really close to the exhaust but i want to just be on the safe side

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/350794940655?s...1900wt_902

[zx_volcane]

zip tie it out the way or something

I can testify that even with heat wrap, exhaust manis can produce enough heat to melt pipes

[Dave]

Get another matrix hose, cut it lengthways and slide it over, will offer alot of protection.

[Frosty]

Might see about putting some more pipe around it. Cheers for the ideas guys!