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Originally Posted by Methodical4u
I see you're right across the bay from me, more people here from Md. than I realized.
On topic though... keep in mind that every 10 degrees cooler there is a 1% increase in power.... hence the reason so many people try to find every advantage possible to keep intake temps down. Sitting in traffic or just idling, WILL bring temps up... even if only by a marginal amount, every little bit we're talking power.
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Yep, surprised you haven't popped up at a MD meet yet.
On topic - no arguments that idling in traffic will bring temps up but once you get moving again the temps drop down drastically. I believe it was in the other thread that talked about the hps tubes where a guy took temp readings of the intakes at idle and at speed to measure how fast temps went back down. Since the plastic airbox and silicone tubes dont soak in heat, the intake temps drop down drastically when moving air passes through them. At this point it really is just nitpicking since when you are driving the car around normally it really won't matter and when you are tracking the car there will always be cool air passing through the intakes (hps tubse or g3's) where heat soak won't even be a problem - oil temps will be.
