MarkyM-UK wrote:
That is impressive but I think it would suffer more with irradiated heat due to all that metal which should either have a wrap or else be treated. But think he's gone for aesthetics (read as 'bling') rather than a performance upgrade. I have a thermal wrap on my cowl and a newly fitted carbon fibre intake (carbon fibre should not heat up in the same way as bare metal).
Mark
Mark,
Kinda hate to disappoint you but any system, thermal wrap or not, carbon or not, will eventually reach the same temp as the OEM system. Place an ice cream bar in the oven, one wrappped in CF etc and another just naked....they will both melt. Baked Alaska theory.
You need to take air from outside the engine bay, give it the least exposure possible to all those hot bits and give it the most direct route without those nasty bends into the throttle body...and some RAM effect if possible.