Splat

Just curious if this is a bad idea for some reason. The IC piping on my T5 goes up and over the engine. I figure wrapping it with header wrap or the like would be worth a few degrees or so. Here's the layout (black t00b in top right is for the IC):




Thoughts?

Dutchie

Header wrap is used to keep heat in, wouldn't be a good idea. They do make intake wrap now, although I don't know any brand names off hand. You should try and find some and give it a try, I would think that pipe would get pretty hot.

Sonny

Yeah, what Dutchie said. Don't use header wrap on it because it is designed to hold heat in. I bought some intake wrap from DEI to use on my short ram intake and it did an excellent job of keeping the pipe cool.

You can get it from Summit Racing or from DEI directly.

Sonny

Splat

So it's probably a reflective wrap of some sort? Makes sense. I figured header wrap would help keep heat out, but I misthought. And yes, that pipe does get damn hot

Sonny

Here's a pic of the DEI wrap that I bought, installed on the tube portion of my Comptech Icebox. The piece that they give you is long enough to do 2 intakes, so I bought it, cut it in half, and split the cost with a buddy of mine.



The diameter of the wrap is pretty large. It was a snug fit on the 3" tube of the intake. It would be very loose on most IC pipes.

Sonny