cold air intake questions

[LEV_101]

nice setup emperor. . . . did that come factory ?

where do you guys know where i can get some of that heat wrap stuff from ?

[mr30%jr]

well pleased with a k&n box filter on my gt4 with the original cold air from behind headlight which has huge piping

[Emperor]

* Carbon intake trumpet (pod inside)
* Factory intake setup cut in half just before the trumpet

I'm gona try run some plastic piping from the bumper vents to the trumpet, but there's SFA room in the engine bay

[Meadzy]

so where do you get the heat foil wrap from?

[Inane]

supercheap auto?

[Loudtoy]

thats a very nice turbo 20v hrt . . . im trying not to spend to much time on it . . . its getting cold air . . . but the pipe where the air going into the throttle is really hot after driving . . . and i need some ideas or tips from you guy which can keep the temp down. thanks

Um you do realise that if you actually had cold air going through the pipe that it wouldn't be hot straight after driving around but the pipe temperature would slowly increase after the car had been sitting. Fact is if the air thats moving through the pipe is as cold as the air temp on theoutside of the car the outside of the pipe will only be fractionally above this. Now if you build a nice cold airbox that is as sealed as you can get it from the engine bay then feed it from a couple of points, say inner gaurd and and leave the front part behind the headlight open you will get quite a ood air feed to the filter. Once you've done it properly the pipe won't feel so warm after driving around.
How i know this works is
a: Running car at drags often in temperatures aproaching 30+ degrees and trying to figure out ways of keeping pipe cool between runs, can't really just go for a drive to get airflow over the filter at the drags but found that straight after a run pipe was actually alot colder than it was 1 min befofe the run
B: In the winter time after driving to work one morning apox 1 hours worth of driving i opened my bonnet to check something and my pipe was to cold for me to hang onto although the reast of the engine was hot to touch.

Although i suppose it's up to you, you could heat wrap your pretty intake and make it look ugly and not actually achive anything or you could get a nice stainless box made up or even better make a mock up out of card board then take it to an engineering place and get tthem to copy it for you, save plenty and look good to - oh and most importantly your pipe will be cold cos intake temps will have dropped.