My intercooler was just put on, and although it's cool right after the intercooler, the intake pipe before the throttle body still gets warm from engine heat (it's bare aluminum). I've seen earlier Greddy kits and even some Apexi kits with the piping painted, similar to an AEM intake I had. Has anyone done this and had success deflecting engine heat away from the intake? If so, is there a specific type of paint that would be better?

 

Lol, no one's done this?

 

I would say the higher the temp paint the more it would insulate but I don't know for sure. Powder coating like the AEM has is probably even better, and of course a real HTC type coating would be the best but lots of dough.

I think certain colors deflect heat better....something like flat black but I can't remember if it reflects or soaks heat

I wouldn't really worry about it, aluminum sheds heat very quickly unlike steel, so you're probably better off than most people since you have al instead of steel.

 

I just wraped my ic pipes with thromo-techs thermoshield, I helped out alot. Especially the ic pipe that is 6" away from my turbo.

 

i just sprayed mine with ceramic grey because the piping was all dirty and oily.. i just bought a can of ceramic silver 1200 degree Duplicolor Paint.. came out very well....

 

I would like to do this also but my piping is chrome how can I get it to stick, or better yet get the chrome off?

 

my bud tried this, after driving the car a while, he pulled some off and said the piping was still ice cold

I tried the same with foil bubblewrap (hot water tank blanket stuff) and it works well too, but looks ghetto. Its cheap tho. I think I'll buy some thermo tape today


[Modified by Turbo E, 12:39 PM 9/26/2002]

 

Sandblast it and it will come off, otherwise use sandpaper, it will just take longer.

 

I have a friend how had a galont VR4 and he put a thermometer right befor the intercooler and befor the TB so he could se the temp diffrents. but he spent alot on a dual gage that you could A,B back and forth between the thermometers he also had the thermal wrap

 

I bought hot-water pipe insulating wrap from homedepot. it has a foam core with a metallic covering. It really gives it that faux-chrome bling bling look

 

Thanks guys, I'm going to give the ceramic paint a try. If that doesn't work, maybe I'll just use some thermo-tec wrap that I have left over. I'd prefer to paint it, though, so it doesn't look so ghetto.