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Originally Posted by edub370
so i know we can all tell after we've been driving the z for a while. it gets hot under the hood, our cars pull timing, and sh!t gets sluggish. so why has nobody tried throwing some header wrap on their long tubes to prevent that metal from getting hot? idk if anyone has ever tried grabbing their long tube intakes after driving a while, but they are hot as hell. at least my injen is.
so what would prevent someone from throwing some header wrap on the intake piping to keep the hot air out and cold air in. or is header wrap unidirectional? i.e. header wrap is designed to keep the headers heat in, whereas we want to keep heat out? would it be worth looking in to....?
another random idea...
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I LOT of people have their intakes wrapped, just need to find the right nutter who actually thought ahead when he/she was doing the install
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Originally Posted by Boost_lee
I have dei reflect a gold wrap on my stillen intakes. I can't comment on the performance gain if any, I figured it certainly wouldn't hurt
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One of our hard core track enthusiast buddies used the gold something or other, but his stiff was insulated as well as gold, he said that it keeps temps down 15-30 degrees. BUT (wait for it)
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Originally Posted by clintfocus
here is my setup, AEM intakes with DEI gold heat reflective tape, this was the 15 foot roll and it was not enough, i shouldve got the 30 foor. ill be getting another roll to finish them off but at least i got the high heat section taped up
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I used header wrap, a lot of it
But once everything heats up to operating temperature, no wrap would really help, if you have a vented hood where ambient heat doesn't get stored and can be vented out, then MAYBE you'd notice a difference The wrap can hopefully deflect the heat that is rising to some degree...