My intake sits on top of the upper rad hose, 06-08 si. Is there anything I can do to protect the intake from heat off the hose, besides a flexible rad hose...only part of it is touching it.

Can I use the exhaust heat wrap stuff? Maybe just a piece under the tube where its touching or on the hose itself.

Any help/recommendations please

 

The intake pipe going to the inlet on my turbo runs directly over my lower radiator hose. I cut a short section of 3/16" ID rubber fuel line and zip tied it to the underside of the intake pipe, right where it touches the radiator hose. This provides a cushion so that the pipe doesn't touch the hose directly. I suppose you could also zip tie a piece of fuel line to the radiator hose if you don't want to attach it to your intake for aesthetic reasons. I also wrapped reflective heat tape around the intake pipe, as well as the rest of my charge piping in the engine bay. Exhaust heat wrap is meant to hold heat in, and doesn't reflect or dissipate heat, so you probably wouldn't want to use it on any part of your intake. Companies like DEI and Thermo-Tec make reflective heat tapes for protecting things in the engine bay from radiant heat.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by inspyral &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">The intake pipe going to the inlet on my turbo runs directly over my lower radiator hose. I cut a short section of 3/16" ID rubber fuel line and zip tied it to the underside of the intake pipe, right where it touches the radiator hose. This provides a cushion so that the pipe doesn't touch the hose directly. I also wrapped reflective heat tape around the intake pipe, as well as the rest of my charge piping in the engine bay. Exhaust heat wrap is meant to hold heat in, and doesn't reflect or dissipate heat, so you probably wouldn't want to use it on any part of your intake. Companies like DEI and Thermo-Tec make reflective heat tapes for protecting things in the engine bay from radiant heat.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Thanks! So should I wrap the reflective wrap on the intake and not the rad hose itself correct?

 

Yes, use the tape on the intake. If you want to use a piece of fuel line as a cushion, you can zip tie it to either the intake or the radiator hose.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by inspyral &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Yes, use the tape on the intake. If you want to use a piece of fuel line as a cushion, you can zip tie it to either the intake or the radiator hose.</TD></TR></TABLE>

ok cool. did you see any noticeable difference in heat?

 

I was just wondering the same thing just popped into mind and your question came up I wrapped my cooling hoses and currently I just changed the spark plugs all of a sudden I have a engine code saying engine loop open, deleted it and then insufficient temperature came up so I thought it could be thermostat or IAT sensor maybe it is due to my hoses not being able to breathe not there is basically brand new everything in the car at this point although my fans don't come on as much as they should

 

Any suggestions would be great and willing to do anything to change things around and make everything run good this is basically a project car my only car LOL and I've put a lot of work into it new clutch oil change with just done spark plugs new exhaust all new fluids took the intake manifold and EGR off and cleaned them car is running really good except for this code all of a sudden after doing my plugs