Opinion on Heat Wrapping

FL 4Motion · 07-02-2011, 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by V8Killer

K cool thanks on the headers. My questions about these options were out of curiosity b/c I have read that someone has done this previously but did not post anything about pro's/con's. I understand your logic about the wrapping of the intakes. My question is b/c our engine is so tightly packed you don't see a gain from wrapping them over extended driving?

/\ Well, here's my 2cents on this. When traveling at speed, the air is going to be moving thru your intake tubing pretty quickly, most likely too quickly to really heat up to any significant degree. Would wrapping the intake tubes help? Maybe, but i seriously doubt it'd be worth any real hp.

The only way to truly know would be to have two sets of tubes, one wrapped and one not and dyno with both back to back and see if there's any real gains. You could also mount a temp sensor of some kind and record iat's with both and compare the difference.

V8Killer · 07-02-2011, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by FL 4Motion

/\ Well, here's my 2cents on this. When traveling at speed, the air is going to be moving thru your intake tubing pretty quickly, most likely too quickly to really heat up to any significant degree. Would wrapping the intake tubes help? Maybe, but i seriously doubt it'd be worth any real hp.

The only way to truly know would be to have two sets of tubes, one wrapped and one not and dyno with both back to back and see if there's any real gains. You could also mount a temp sensor of some kind and record iat's with both and compare the difference.

Ya I thought about that as well the travel rate of the air going through the intake. Just like I am wondering about the air flow to the Stillen G3's. Thanks for the response man.

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