Thinking of making heat shielding for my R's current short ram intake and also for the air ducting. What is some good material for the price? I am also thinking of making the shield into a box that will seal around the intake tube when the hood is closed. Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.

 

Stainless Steel..... it does not absorb heat very well. Therefore, the Stainless Steel will not heat up very well, and inturn the steel will not heat up the air on the other side of the Stainless Steel.

However, Stainless Steel is not easy to work with and form. Aluminum is easier to work with, but it absorbs heat better, inturn will transfer the heat to the other side better as well.


[Modified by PSU-TEG, 9:03 PM 4/2/2002]

 

Along the lines of heat shielding, whats a good thing to wrap intakes/headers with? I was thinking of wrapping mine up to keep some of the heat in the headers and heat away from the intake pipe.

 

there is some stuff called thermo wrap, looks like potato sack strips. Most auto performance shops should be able to get some for you.
as for the intake pipe, I think a plastic one would be best for heat rejection like the comptech one.

 

I used to wrap header tubes on my Z28 back in the day, it accelerated the corrsion on the tubes. The wrap sometimes holds moisture against the tubes.
Just thought you might want to keep that in mind.

I had better luck with Jet-Hot coatings, it looked better also.


[Modified by SLPR, 2:54 PM 4/2/2002]

 

Phenolics. Have no idea how much the cost is though...

 

but it cheap on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eb...136585&r=0&t=0