wantboost

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My backyard could be a pool right now

SRDFTITAN

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Haha I know exactly what you are talking about, when my neighborhood was built there was a lake right under me!! And trust me I'm reminded of this every time there is a heavy down pour!!

wantboost

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Our backyard is an engineering joke... big hill then the whole yard is lower in the middle. It got so bad we had to put in french drains... Still doesn't get rid of all of it, especially over the years of rain eroding everything, we are going to have to extend the drain 50ft or so and make most of it a solid grate so everything drains.

I sink 6+ inches in the ground when I walk in the yard. Its that bad. Plus I'm getting tired of having to wipe my dogs feet and legs off every time I let them out

I'm in downtown Atlanta right now... and down by Marietta street, centennial Olympic park, Phillips arena, etc its so serene and tranquil... not a lot of people are out and its just amazing to listen to the sounds of the city.. I know I'm weird lol

SRDFTITAN

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No your not weird I would think that's its awesome too to not have anybody running around Atlanta!! Yeah your back yard sounds worse then mine. On the bright side if the water gets deep enough you can go fishing!!

wantboost

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That actually made me think of something else, the air supply to the box... where does it come from? That little dead space behind the bumper? I'd be afraid if it rained hard it might suck up water... might be wise to put a bypass valve on the pipe between the inlet and where it goes into the box, so if you do hit water the bypass opens and prevents the water from entering the system.

SRDFTITAN

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I didn't even know they still made these. I think back in the day aem came out with them.

wantboost

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Yea it was a while back, eBay has some listed.

SRDFTITAN

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Oh sweet I'm going to look into this.

wantboost

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Yea I just though it would be a good ideas, you know how Georgia has some lakes in the middle of the road lol

OneBadTurboCRV

Rain water suction would be canceled out by having a bigger inlet than outlet. Pretty simple when you think about it. For instance, look at AEM's V2 cold air intake for 99-00 Civic Si. They eliminated the old design with the bypass and created a large suction tube with a small charge tube inside.

wantboost

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That is very true, I would just be concerned that water would make its way into the bottom of the box.

scottdh20

I happen to have some of the dei silver cool-it tape....would that work well for the fmic piping or do i need to buy the gold for that

SRDFTITAN

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No I think that what you have would be perfect. The cool it tape is really good. From my research and testing the tape does two things; insulates and radiates. This can work to your advantage especially after the intercooler, it keeps the cold air that just came out of the intercooler cold through its insulating properties and radiates the heat that's in the engine bay further keeping it cool. Go for it!!

wantboost

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I wouldn't wrap the hot pipe unless it passes something hotter than itself

On the turbo outlet -> intercooler pipe can actually shed heat if it has enough air flow, so wrapping it would just trap heat in and cause the intercooler to work harder I.e. lose thermal efficiency

SRDFTITAN

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I can't wait to see how my charge piping temps after turbo have changed since the cold air box. I have some things that I'm doing to the box tomorrow to make sure that I'm maintaining a high efficiency. Then I'll run the testing again.

scottdh20

Awsome...i completly forgot i had it....a couple years ago i had a ramhorn mani that was about 1/8" from the radiator so i used it for that...i just found it in the back of a drawer on my work bench

SRDFTITAN

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Yeah I would definitely use it, it's good stuff

wantboost

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We've had issues with any brand of silver stuff sticking under heat. We did the tunnel of our c6 z06 at first with the silver stuff... heat would cause the adhesive to get sticky and the insulation would fall all the time, we burned a lot of it up.. now we use the dei lava mat... although I might ask my dad about inconel for our application. Maybe he can locate a supplier for our little ideas

scottdh20

i have a forward facing mani so i dont have any hot side charge piping, my turbo hooks directly up to the fmic, so i'm only looking to use the silver stuff on the cold side charge piping. it doesent see too much heat, the worst is the radiator fan blowing hot air right at it and overall underhood temps, since wrapping its 100% better, next up is a blanket and i will do as much of my piping as i have tape lying around.

but i did have to reapply it every couple months because the heat from the ramhorn being 1/8th inch away did pretty much cook the tape

SRDFTITAN

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I haven't had any problems like the this, but I also don't have anything taped that is that close to anything super hot. I have some inconel coming in and I'm going to be doing some testing and reviews with it. It's not set in stone but I'm thinking of putting it up against the back side of my compressor housing and if there is enough left around my center cartridge (thanks wantboost) lol. We will see.

mitsuman

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any data yet on the reflective gold tape?

wantboost

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The weather has been so bad here I've barely been able to let my dogs out. Its rained non stop forever. So I would imagine with low ambient temps and high humidity to even begin testing is pointless


Oh yea, sorry we didn't make it to Rome, as I said over text I'd really like to meet up and look at the car, toss some ideas and the beer is on me lol.

Also he might be too busy protecting and serving the public given the bad weather

He'll chime in when its time.

SRDFTITAN

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Thanks wantboost, you are exactly right. The weather here has not been favorable. Plus I'm trying to keep all of the test as identical as possible when it comes down to ambient temps, as this would alter the results either way and we would not know if anything helped or hurt the numbers. As soon as the weather cooperates and the ambient temperature is withing a couple of degrees of 55 degrees the testing will resume.

Wantboost I will take you up on the beer offer lol!!

'92 HatchGuy

Best heat-soak thread ever!! I sell a few DEI products and I know how well they work based on customer feedback. But your experiment has been properly executed with back2back data. Also liking the fab work with the cold air intake. Are you putting an air filter on there??

mitsuman

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thanks for the update guys. looking forward to some data