Check out this. Has anyone done this?

I kinda of like it. Is that header wrap?

 

Yea header wrap.....I hear the car owner is a real dweeb though.

 

i know chris has made a heat shield for his intake pipe

 

Yep, but it has a faulty design and the sheetmetal cracks due to the movement of the engine...

 

I noticed my ICEBOX gets warm also, is there anything I can do to keep it cooler?

 

Yes that is header wrap, yes its ichy when you use it.

Mattj (the Dweeb car owner)

 

I really wonder if that makes any difference. Just feel the intake manifold after a 15 minute drive--that's where a lot of intake heat is coming from.

 

Try a Hondata Gasket, No more heat (ok maybe just less heat)

Mattj

 

Why is there 3 socks?? I know 1 for brake, 1 for clutch.. whats the 3rd one by the bar???? Fuel??

 

Not sure if this is right or not, but is what I heard when this topic came up a while ago and seems to make sense. Apparently there isn't much since in worrying about the intake pipe becoming hot because with the volume of air entering the engine through the pipe there isn't enough time for the air to become heated; the air is moving so fast through the pipe that it can not be warmed. It'd be interesting to actually know how much air is going through the intake pipe at a given RPM realative to the time it takes the heat generated by the engine to warm the air in the intake pipe. Something to think about I guess.

 

Steering rack.

 

Someone posted a while back(maybe years) that used the wrap on a AEM CAI with before and afters measuring the air at the throttle body with a thermal couple in the air stream... I can't remember for sure what the numbers were, but it was a sigificant difference... still haven't done it myself though...


[Modified by Zeus, 11:32 PM 6/17/2002]