Can someone tell me if the Hondata gasket really makes that lot of difference
in intake temperature cooling? Will it help to cool down intake temperature for
forced induction engines. As the price is really cheap, I am planning to purchase
one, cause my local performance specialist tells me it really works, pls let me have your advise

Thanks
Ton
Euroturbo-R

 

Yes. I`m rocking one. Few other friends reallty like theirs, too.

Ryan

 

I am running one made locally, not by Hondata, seems to work great. Holds initial heat build up down considerably, and runs much cooler than with a stock gasket. Makes cooling between runs much eaiser.
This company choose to use a different material to have higher heat tolerances...


Jason

 

Loving mine...

 

what does it look like installed? looks are everything to me

 

lol wtf?

 

I want one too. Does it come in chrome?


[Modified by paste, 12:26 AM 7/30/2002]

 

hondata advertises for 60 bucks.

 

i dont think mine is making a difference hey i could be wrong. but every time i have felt my intake mani it felt really hot. I used the intake gasket with the little washer things for the nuts. I havent felt my manifold before the hondata gasket but i dont think it made that much of a difference btw its on a h22 civic Maybe it just get really hot under the hood. The temp never goes that close to the halfway point so i dont think its running any hotter than usual but i am using my stock d series radiator.

 

Yup, it dramatically lowers the intake charge temps. Installation instructions can be found here:

http://www.c-speedracing.com/howto/h...atagasket.html

 

lol, Hondata is back ordered for a couple weeks.

 

Yes, it seems to work. Especially on N/A engines. Maybe it's not noticeable when you have a good intercooler....

BTW. Who told you this? Gerard or Jim?
I was talking with Gerard about this Hondata gasket three weeks ago.

 

stopped by Hondata again this morning

 

What? What happened?

 

Needed another gasket

I figure w/ two it should be twice as cool.

Jk . Assembling my block tonight

Ryan

 

have one for $50 with spacers only ran at idle...

 

what car is it for? did u cut out the coolant passage?

 

b16 with no coolant passage. Its not cut. $50

 

I had tested it out 1/2 year ago, got it directly from Doug @ SEMA Las Vegas.

When you make the T/b bypass it is worth, otherwise not. Also a big benefit is, that you can install it every time you take of the intake manifold. Normaly you have to change every time the stock gasket when you pull off the manifold.

 

Nope, a Ventuli plate is completely a different thing. It reduce the air intake ports of the manifold to speed up the air which is sucked from the pistons into the cylinders. Faster air flow = more air in the combustion camber. Only good on n/a engines.

The Hondata gasket is made of plastic.

 

do you have enough clearance with the strut bar and firewall using a Skunk2 IM with this gasket?

this is an age old technology. I remember Outlaw Engineering Phenolic Spacers were hyped in the late 90's...look at the temp curves and compare it to the hondata curve....

look familiar? old is new again.....if you wait long enough a fad will cycle through again...

http://home.san.rr.com/scmorgan/spacers/


[Modified by Michael Delaney, 1:12 PM 8/10/2002]

 

which brings me back to this gasket and ported heads...the conventional wisdom is that the port area shouldn't exceed the gasket borders anyway but are there people concerned with that?

I wouldn't run the ventuli gasket in a 1.8L trying to make more power up top above 6000 rpm. The ventuli closes down the port area to gain some low to midrange flow speed ...something a torqueless , long rod b16a needs in the low to mid rpms. That gasket would virtually stiffle and choke a b18c in the upper powerband.

 

I am serious. forget the ventuli plate in a B18C....anyone disagree?

 

michael always lays it down.

 

you are completely correct

in a B16 it gives the illusion of torque , b18 forget it , kills top end