JayTheCPA
Well-Known Member
Disclaimer: As the first TTS member to request service from Twisted Steel Performance, I was given the service and product for free providing that I do an evaluation. So with that in mind, here is the review.
The areas that I can definitely speak to are the process and communications. Both were excellent!
For a few years, I had bugged (now) Twisted Steel to do some ceramic coating. As soon as the business went 'official', he could not avoid me any more
This project goal was to creamic coat a down pipe with the expectation to push heat under the truck and not have it radiate along the firewall and block. During the discussion phase, Twisted Steel recommended to just go with an internal coating as opposed to my thought of coating both sides of the pipe. Reasoning was that (for the exterior) wraps were more effective at heat retention, so I decided to do the wrap on my end where Twisted Steel was good with that approach (and would have done the wrap had I wanted).
Pictures:
Naked Pipe
Prepped Pipe
Finished Pipe
Turn-around time was within the time-frame that was provided at the start of communications. Am not stating the exact dates as it does not really matter where they may change for different customers and workloads.
The quality of product looks good, and in fairness, I have nothing to measure against as I do not have any data from the old exhaust pipe. Even if I did have data from the existing pipe, the current exhaust is 3" with *no* heat retention treatment and I am replacing it with 4" that will have heat retention treatments, so it would not result in fair comparisons anyway.
I did notice that the pipe looked like it took a bump on the downstream / trailing edge and am not worried about it. That is what tools are for. In any event, this is the result of the shipper and *not* Twisted Steel as the shipper supplied the packaging and did the packaging on my end; Twisted Steel re-packaged according to how the shipper packed it.
When the time comes to put this downpipe in service, I will start a thread in the Project Central section. Toward the wrap, I am looking into a blanket which also has a second order benefit of sound reduction. I decided on the blanket after excellent inputs from Twisted Steel
The areas that I can definitely speak to are the process and communications. Both were excellent!
For a few years, I had bugged (now) Twisted Steel to do some ceramic coating. As soon as the business went 'official', he could not avoid me any more
This project goal was to creamic coat a down pipe with the expectation to push heat under the truck and not have it radiate along the firewall and block. During the discussion phase, Twisted Steel recommended to just go with an internal coating as opposed to my thought of coating both sides of the pipe. Reasoning was that (for the exterior) wraps were more effective at heat retention, so I decided to do the wrap on my end where Twisted Steel was good with that approach (and would have done the wrap had I wanted).
Pictures:
Naked Pipe
Prepped Pipe
Finished Pipe
Turn-around time was within the time-frame that was provided at the start of communications. Am not stating the exact dates as it does not really matter where they may change for different customers and workloads.
The quality of product looks good, and in fairness, I have nothing to measure against as I do not have any data from the old exhaust pipe. Even if I did have data from the existing pipe, the current exhaust is 3" with *no* heat retention treatment and I am replacing it with 4" that will have heat retention treatments, so it would not result in fair comparisons anyway.
I did notice that the pipe looked like it took a bump on the downstream / trailing edge and am not worried about it. That is what tools are for. In any event, this is the result of the shipper and *not* Twisted Steel as the shipper supplied the packaging and did the packaging on my end; Twisted Steel re-packaged according to how the shipper packed it.
When the time comes to put this downpipe in service, I will start a thread in the Project Central section. Toward the wrap, I am looking into a blanket which also has a second order benefit of sound reduction. I decided on the blanket after excellent inputs from Twisted Steel
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