Anyone have one, what are your thoughts about it and how does it compare to the Hondata.

 

Hondata

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by inline4 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Hondata has developed a special high temperature insulating gasket which replaces the stock intake gasket. This and bypassing several heat sources significantly reduces the transfer of heat from the head to the intake and incoming air giving you up to 5% more power.

Turbocharged cars often use an aluminum intercooler to cool the air compressed by the turbo. The intake manifold is also made of aluminum but because it is heated by the head from combustion and coolant, works in reverse to an intercooler by heating the intake air by as much as 50° C.

Fact: For every 3.3 °C (5° F) rise in intake temperature, air density drops 1%. The hotter the air, the less fuel the computer injects to compensate for reduced oxygen. HondaLogger datalogging software has enabled Hondata to measure intake air temperature under varied driving conditions.

Around town, testing has shown an average drop of around 10 degrees C which is good for around 3 percent power increase. Remember though that 3 percent power increase is difficult to feel. You'd feel a greater change in performance getting rid of that passenger. In certain conditions a 30° C drop has been measured.
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AN-R
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by an-r &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
Special high temperature insulating gasket made of 0.128" thick polyethylene which replaces the stock intake gasket. This and bypassing several heat sources significantly reduces the transfer of heat from the head to the intake and incoming air giving you up to 5% more power.

Testing has shown an average drop of around 10 degrees C which is good for around 3 percent power increase.</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

LOL so i guess go the cheaper way

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by gutted-dx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">LOL so i guess go the cheaper way</TD></TR></TABLE>



one in the same to me

 

I just installed mine.. and compared it to my friends Hondata.. Both are strickenly similar. But I chose AN-R cause They have treated me great in the past and Andrew is great with customer service..

BTW get the AN-R Its the exact same material and its cheaper

 

Do you need to use two different intake manifold gaskets or does it work as a manifold gasket. Has anyone tried the Outlaw Engineering spacer

 

http://www.outlawengineering.com/index.html

Meh to those little thin plastic spacers....

 

nope you can just use the an-r buy its self. mine is holding up just great

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by splitime &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">http://www.outlawengineering.com/index.html

Meh to those little thin plastic spacers....</TD></TR></TABLE>

meh to your "location" and your hipocracy, they work fine, my IM is colder than my inner fender wells.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by EGmikeH22 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">meh to your "location" and your hipocracy, they work fine, my IM is colder than my inner fender wells.</TD></TR></TABLE>

But that is my location... my cars are entirely functional... and hipocracy how?

The Outlaw kit has a spacer for the IM, the TB and the IACV... so all the points were coolant can add heat to the IM. Of course you can just block the coolant to the TB and IACV... but the Outlaw kit is also much much thicker than the normal gaskets... and comes with gaskets for itself and extended studs/hardware for all.

 

where can you get a cheap one for the D-series? don't feel like spending $60 for a piece of "special" plastic

 

The AN-R is just fine... too bad they only carry for B-series

Spacer will decrease temperature by 3%.. coolant will increase temperature by 2%... you do the math.. if you do the spacer do the coolant by-pass as well.. otherwise it's not worth it