DNP o2 housings and stock heat shields

[bearded1]

Had ridiculous fitment issues with my non branded 3sx o2 housing. It was a bigger PITA to install then the stocker and it's leaking from the flange even now. I'm going to have to pull it eventually and get it milled or something.

Just FYI

Jake

[fastfalcon94]

So I got the DNP o2 housings on and the turbo blankets. It was definitely a hassle. The turbos only have about 4k miles on them and for some reason 2 of the rear turbo studs broke. So I had to pull the rear turbo and drill/retap them. The blankets don't fit like a glove but I am sure they will be better than nothing. The wire it gives you to pull them together seems a little thin, but if it wasn't I guess you would have a hard time twisting it around everything. It took about 15 minutes per turbo to install the blankets and make sure that the wastegate arms cleared fine. It will be a few days before I start it.

The o2 housings wrapped nicely. I had wrapped all the way up to the top, but there is very little clearance with the DNP pipes to even thread the nuts on the studs. With the extra thickness of the wrap it was impossible. Even without the wrap I had to modify a wrench with an angle grinder to be able to tighten one of the nuts. I thought about cutting the wrap around all the studs, but then the wrap would just get frayed there and look like crap. So I didn't wrap all the way to the top. I also cut my hand open pretty good on one of the metal zip tie edges that I clipped.

I wish someone made blankets like for bigger turbos that are cut exactly to fit, button together, and even go part way down the o2 housings so it covers the flange itself.

[fastfalcon94]

I had to modify my downpipe to mate up to the front o2 housing as I couldn't have 2 pipes trying to delete the front precat. I got it wrapped and installed the other day and started the car for the first time in weeks last night. Everything smoked as it was breaking into the the heat for the first time. It will be a little while before I can drive the car though as I'm waiting on some longer rear brake lines and my coilover order from Maximal.

[sergechronos]

I'll be interested to see how this turns out for you. I'm on the fence between whether I'll wrap my tubulars, precats, DP and turbos, or just get them ceramic coated. Leaning towards ceramic coating, but only because I haven't seen much feed back on wrapping the turbos for the platform and would rather have it all match.