I remember seeing someone selling blankets for the stock FD3S LIM but I don't remember by who. But I was wondering if anyone made blankets for the Xcessive LIM. Thanks.

thewird

 

Ah, here it is... Basically, I'm looking for this but for the Xcessive LIM.



thewird

 

i think they only make one blanket now that works for either the OEM (as long as the ACV is removed) or the Xcessive LIM.

http://www.turblown.net/store/index.php?productID=90

might want to call and check though...

 

Looks cool, but it's not worth $255 if you ask me. You could gold wrap the entire LIM for around $40 and I'm sure it will work just as good. I did mine with adhesive backed gold wrap from Summit. It took about 2-3 hours, but it was worth it.

 

ah i remember when you posted that pic. dead sexy. i already have my UIM done, but next time i have the twins off i'm going to do the same to my LIM.

 

Yea I forgot to add the part where you have to remove the LIM. I suppose you could do it while it's in the car, but it would be a huge pain and you'd probably destroy your back.

 

Wait, your entire UIM is gold wrapped? The underside of mine is wrapped but I never considered doing the whole thing. If so please post some pics.

 

I have that LIM blanket and saw no drop in temps

 

That is perfectly to be expected considering the LIM is after the AIT sensor :P. My reason for wanting one is because the turbo hotside is right beside the LIM and I don't want to run a turbo blanket since I road race the car.

thewird

 

You have to move the AIT to right before the ports to see a drop. I did it before selling the blankets. Also a recent customer did a back to back dyno with not just a thermal blanket, but shields for all his turbo system. 7rwhp gain.

The stock lim shield also fits the GZ lim. Actually it fits the GZ unit a lot better...

 

Is it offset like it is in the picture? Wouldn't that be for the stock LIM? Is that what it looks like?

thewird

 

http://www.turblown.net/store/index.php?productID=56

Thats Rich's, he has the ground zero....

 

even with the twin turbo.. u can use the blanket.

 

I have the Excesive LIM and the blanket fits fine.

Jack

 

I have only bolted it onto a car with the twins. We have a few customers running them on the stock twins, no complaints so far...

 

Like Ball joint did, I put heat reflective tape on my LIM, see pics attached. I used Areo-lite silver tape, it's supposed to be the best tape out there, it's more expensive then the dei gold tape but it's supposed to reflect more radiant heat. I removed the LIM so I could do a good job on it. It ended up taking me a good 5-6 hours to do it!! And only on the side facing the stock turbos. After about an hour of doing it and getting very little done, I almost wished I just spent the money on that blanket lol. Maybe I was trying to do too much of a perfect job, but it just took forever, so many little pieces were needed, I cut probably 500 pieces. The tape didn't stick super great, but good enough I think, it stuck to itself really good so you have to overlap it a good bit to hold it all together better. Hopefully it's worth it to keep the radiant heat from warming up the air going through the lim. The easy part was removing the turbos and the LIM haha, but I've done all that before so no big deal.

I think I will also do the ypipe since it sits above the turbos and gets all that radiant heat, and the secondary turbo intake pipe. I'll report back results later.

http://www.coastfab.com/heattape.html
http://earlsindy.com/catalog/product...oducts_id=2738

 

installed pics..

 

FWIW, Pettit sells a LIM shield for around 60$ that has a heat resistant material on the inside.

 

Ya I wanted that but its made for single turbo setups and doesn't fit with the twins. I was thinking about making 1 for my car.

 

i have one that i never installed. let me know if you want to buy it, i will give you a great deal on it.

thanks

simon