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If you’ve spent more than five minutes on a race track or circuit, chances are, you’ve likely seen the signs of excessive heat, such as brake fade, fuel boiling, wiring damage, or a cockpit that fee

HEAT SHIELD TROUBLESHOOTING Rattling Heat Shield: Should You Fix It, Remove It or Replace It? A rattling heat shield is annoying, but it should not be ignored or ripped off without checking what it p

BUYING GUIDE Silicone Hoses: The Superior Choice For Automotive Silicone hoses are a popular upgrade for coolant, intake and vacuum systems because they handle heat cycles, ageing and pressure better

Imagine lining up for your best drag strip run of the day, only for your car to die halfway down the track suddenly. That’s exactly what happened to me. My turbo Honda Civic’s engine was playing up

K-Swap Cost Guide How Much Does It Cost To K-Swap Your Car? A realistic UK parts budget for a Honda K20 or K24 swap, using a Civic EK as the base example and showing where the money actually goes. We

Today, we will cover the three types of engine bay heat transfer and discuss how to tackle each one. If you are reading this, you already know that heat management in an engine bay is important, and

A turbo blanket is one of the most effective ways to reduce engine bay heat, improve consistency, and protect your car from heat-related damage. It works by insulating the exhaust housing of your turb

I’m Matt, the owner of Exoracing, and I’ve spent around 8 years building and helping customers with their turbocharged cars, including our own AWD Turbo Civic project, so I’ve learned firsthand how m

TURBO BLANKET SAFETY Can a Turbo Blanket Catch Fire? Oil Leaks, Smoking and Safety A clean, correctly fitted turbo blanket should not catch fire at random, but oil, fuel, coolant contamination, and p

BOOST CONTROL GUIDE What Does a Boost Controller Do? A boost controller helps a turbocharged engine control how much boost reaches the wastegate, giving the tuner more control over boost pressure, sp

TURBO HEAT CONTROL GUIDE How To Install A Turbo Blanket Step By Step Fit your turbo blanket safely; check the size before installation, position the springs correctly, and protect the parts around the

ENGINE HEAT SOAKHeat soak is heat stored in parts after hard use, idling or shutdown. Find which temperature is rising before choosing a fix. On Alex’s 550bhp Audi RS4, we investigated intake heat so

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Fuel System Heat Management Fuel Temperature Explained: Pumps, Returns and Vapour Lock True vapour lock is rare in a well-designed modern fuel system. However, fuel can still get too hot. Hot fuel is

In the last year, we've been asked more and more to supply Honda Civic turbo conversions, so it was time for our most extensive write-up. We will go through a complete Honda turbo conversion guide fro

TRACK DAY PREP First Track Day Car Preparation Checklist Prepare your car properly before a track day with a practical checklist covering safety, brakes, tyres, fluids, weight, heat and what to pack.

Welcome back to the Exoracing AWD Honda Civic build series! We're thrilled to share the car's plans with you, including the ECU, fuel system, bodywork, and more. This project has us buzzing with excit

CUSTOMER CASE STUDY 543BHP Turbo EP3 Heat Management Case Study Nathan’s 543 bhp Honda Civic Type R EP3 was making summer drives uncomfortable and exposing bulkhead components to intense radiant heat

HEAT SLEEVE INSTALLATION GUIDE How To Install Silicone Fibreglass Heat Sleeve A practical guide to measuring, cutting, fitting and securing silicone heat sleeve on hoses, fuel lines, oil lines and wi

A lightweight flywheel is one of those upgrades that can make a car feel more eager everywhere, even though it does not actually add engine horsepower. By reducing rotating mass, the engine can gain a

INSTALLATION GUIDE Honda Civic FN2 Fan Shroud Fitting Guide This guide explains how to fit an upgraded radiator fan shroud to a Honda Civic FN2 Type R, including removal, fan wiring, polarity table,

We caught up with professional competition drifter and one of our longest-sponsored drivers, Martin Wonnacott. He goes in-depth about how to start drifting, his experience, simulators, the competition

TURBO BLANKET TESTOur blowtorch demonstration shows how the blanket behaved under direct local heat. It is useful evidence of a thermal barrier, with limits that matter when choosing parts for a car.

INSTALLATION GUIDE How To Install A Silicone Hose Kit This guide shows how to remove old rubber coolant hoses, fit a silicone hose kit, refill the cooling system and bleed the coolant properly so the