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Old 03-09-2017, 09:31 AM   #22 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jaytirbhaw View Post
I don't think this is the type of wrap you'd want to do on your chargepipes. That titanium heat wrap is great for the hotside ( keeps heat in) but for your charge pipe you'd actually want that air to escape, doing this might keep your IAT up higher than you'd like cus the hot air would be "trapped".

What you need is some of this - https://www.designengineering.com//c...r/reflect-gold

That should help with heat soak on your chargepipes since it'll "reflect" the heat away vs trapping any heat in
Just experimenting.

Unless it allows heat to escape while reflecting the outside heat back, that other stuff would do essentially the same thing you're describing. My thinking is that it's better off keeping the cooler air the charge pipe is bringing in than allowing the charger pipe to become heat soaked by the much hotter air under the hood, which would heat up the air coming in even more.

The other thought is by not running any sort of wrap on it would the aluminum charge pipe dissipate some heat as the air travels through it, keeping AIT's lower than any intervention. I don't know the answer which is why I'm playing around wit it. Only a couple of zip ties to undo and find the answer.

Plus the Ti heat wrap looks boss. The reflective stickers look like a blind guy wrapped a candy cane and something you'd find on a 10 year old subie with a fart can.

There's also ceramic urethane coatings and such but that's not so easy to just try.

And it keeps me occupied enough I don't get tempted to start charting likes

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