Tested - DEI Reflect A Gold Heat Thermal Racing Engine Tape
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2010
- Visit OctaneReport.com for more tests and reviews. We put DEI's Reflect-A-Gold thermal heat reflecting tape to the test. Rated at 80% heat reflection up to 325-deg. We push it to 3000-deg in direct fire and see the difference. More than your car will ever see. 110-deg cooler in the end.
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This product is a heat shield not a fire shield, besides its rated under 900 degrees, so this test is kinda outside of its designed capabilities ...
ralfyny either way still did pretty good 😂
Agree ralfyny we dont have flames around the engine just the heat :))
Still more than makes the point. If it can handle this extreme with such a benefit then it will do even better in a less aggressive scenario for sure.
You all are morons or what??? What you get from fire heat or cold ???? Morons🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ . The person did a extreme test to letting morons like you know how efficient is the product. All of you must back to school to study the properties of fire IDIOTS.🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@joelhendz you need to relax bud
Surprisingly good result since you should have perhaps wrapped the thermo-sensor not the fire shield. Its a thermal barrier not a fire barrier.
Additionally, adding the tape increases thermal mass, thus a timed test isn't necessarily the best. You would want a steady state test. After all in your car, you aren't worried about intake temps in the first few minutes after starting the car, you want them cooler after the car has been running and is up to temp.
So, I'm saying what I'm guessing is the same thing many others are:
This was incineration, not reflection of radiated heat, or resistance to convection. The seat of the fire was directly exposed to the surface of the material - thus it was conducting heat directly from the products of combustion as they reacted.
I've been a bored teenager too, so I'm not judging ;-)
This stuff is good for reflecting heat from a source that doesn't touch it (and isn't trying to set fire to it). If you need fire resistance, I'd recommend some refractory insulation as a backup to the reflective facing. That can be had with flame contact stability up over 1400°C.
Also, I take issue to the phrase "more than your car will ever see" - I'm guessing you haven't seen a Subaru loose an oil supply line to the turbo over the header before...
awesome cool test!
WOW..that's amazing. even with such high heat...a temp your car would never ever barely close to see. what is it made out of exactly?
you straight up torched it
so what happens when the torch burns all the foil off?
I think most people are locked on the torch. the point is if it can sustain a direct burn source as a fueled flame then radiant heat of we will say 200f should be fine. if you want heat escape don't wrap part.
question. hypothetical, would i be able to retro fit some of this material onto the hand guard of my rifle to reduce heat?
Can you do this same heat test but with 3M HVAC foil tape? Curious to see the results from that
It doesn't really matter if they burned it with a flame or not... Obviously you don't have an open flame on the parts you apply the tape to... But this shows that even while being burned the temperature was basically halved... So apply the logic, you won't have fire in your engine bay, but you will have reduced temperatures on the parts you apply the product to- Maybe not by 50 percent, maybe even more... Either way there will be temperature reductions- Come on people ☺️
. .no you come on, your "logic" is bullshit.
Yes I'm aware the video is 7 years old, but has anyone else noticed at 1:21 the probe wire is in line with the torch, at 1:22 on the side-shot, it has moved to the side and by 1:24 it is back to being inline with the torch. Dodgy testing going on here. Plus, the 1st test you can watch the whole thing from the side and see that the torch and probe are inline but on the 2nd test you don't see where the probe is or the distance from the torch except for the split second side-view which wasn't from the same test in any case, but I suspect from the 1st test. I call Shenanigans.
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Would this be good to use on intercooler pipes in the engine bay ?
Is this suitable to stick on oil pan to block the heat coming from header?
Isnt gold an excellent conductor? So temperature should be high? Pls explain
So it dont let heat in... i think heat getting out is more of the consern how does the back side reflect heat?
is it dangerous if i install this gold wrap on my intercooler pipe? will it catch fire if my intercooler pipe temperature is high?
totally not testing/using the product correctly. its meant to be a radiant heat suppressor.
so it really does something
It blocks infrared heat not a direct flame this was pointless.
+notorque yes I actually did watch it. I don't think you understand the difference of infrared or indirect heat to a torch flame. This simulates nothing of significance. (When does anyone in "normal driving conditions" have an open flame/fire or better yet a torch burning under the hood of their car?) I can take duct tape add it to a sheet of metal and have some type of thermal resistance from a torch flame. The gold or silver foil tape is for indirect or infrared heat to prevent heat soaking of parts not a flame from a torch. If you want this test to prove something. Use this product for what it is intended for. Simulate real under hood conditions. Don't burn it with a torch and say look it works. How about drive around with it on the car intake with the temp probe attached to the inside of the pipe for 10 miles without the tape and 10 miles with the tape installed? That's the results I want to see.
First test the 'steel' (looks like Aluminum to me) touched the thermocouple, second it did not.
ok, what if you just wrapped the inlet tube with exhaust heat wrap, as that does exactly the same but as a fraction of the cost. also coupled with wrapping your exhaust/ exhaust manifold etc again saving more money
is there a long term exposure test to say 150℃ for an hr or so, to give a much better real life exposure to direct heat test, rather then to a naked flame... As don't forget you also get radiant heat travelling from the engine itself.......
+Mal Peacock heat wrap for your exhaust insulates the heat inside the exhaust tubing allowing a straight shot out the back of the tailpipe vs lingering around in your exhaust tubes...
reflect-a-gold reflects heat.. key word is reflect.
reflect-a-gold helps prevent your intake tube from heat soak. heat soak affects everything in your engine bay. the most critical would be the intake and fuel lines. if you can afford it you would essentially wrap your entire engine bay in reflect-a-gold so there is less area for heat soak, thus forcing hot air to be vented out of your engine bay quicker.
damnit!! i was going to buy this as a fire shield incase my car caught fire!! WORTHLESS!!
KoG GoK it's a heat shield for your intake, bro. Cooler air intake mean better engine power (But not that much). This should be a last thing or almost last thing to do when modify a car. /Sorry for bad eng
OMGoodness. Apparently the "tester" is reading-challenged.
The test prob would have worked if you turned the sheet of metal in opp direction as stated
Wow wow wow. What a beautiful demonstration of thermodynamic testing. Not! WTF
Ya if this tape cant reflect 3000 degrees I don't know if I can trust this on my ride seeing as everyone's car runs around 3000 degrees which is about 500 more than what it takes to melt steel so I'm out.
i hope your air intake piping doesnt reach 3000 degrees lolz..its meant to be used on parts like intercooler piping ,,hoses etc not on headers or engine
Reflect a gold applications
TOTAL JUNK SCIENCE.
(1) THE TAPE IS FOR "HEAT" REFLECTING, NOT HEAT x WIND.
(2) USING ANY COMPRESSED-FUEL TORCH FOULS SUCH A TEST.
The torch way too close
it's just a fiberglass tape with some "gold" anodized aluminum on the front - not even close to the real thing
frosty A B do you not know how color relates to heat reflecting abilities?
Lol fail
Its not an objective test. One you have a human acting on any part its not fair. The human could be holding it closer, further, at a different angle and all that cant be seen once you changed the camera angle. Delete and do it again w/o human involvement.
What a completely obtuse test.