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Originally Posted by ChaseZ
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  |
I wonder what the temps are like coming out of the SC - after you got everything up and running just the way you like you can probably put a temp sensor in the engine compartment and compare against the AITs shown by OBD2... see if its worth insulating or not.