Heat Wrapping the CAI

[Arnie91]

As part of trying to reduce ambient heat under the hood. I've thought about heat wrapping my Cold air intake and TIP to reflect heat from the turbo and downpipe. There seems to be debate as to whether this benefits air intake temps and general heat resistance.

Has anyone else got the CAI or intakes heat wrapped?

[tHatOne guY]

Thinking about heat protecting my air box on my C5. I was looking into custom fitting this stuff. ...
http://www.amazon.com/DEI-010393-Ref...=sr_1_3&sr=8-3

Most places Jeg's, Summit maybe Pep Boys has it.

[Arnie91]

Thinking about heat protecting my air box on my C5. I was looking into custom fitting this stuff. ...
http://www.amazon.com/DEI-010393-Ref...=sr_1_3&sr=8-3

Most places Jeg's, Summit maybe Pep Boys has it.

I had something similar. It wasn't reflect-a-gold though. It didn't stick at all. My DIY heat shield unwound causing it to burn on the catalytic converter. Defo go with a high quality brand if your gonna use that.

You might want to use heat resistant material to wrap your air box and use the reflect-a-gold to tape it up?

[texasboy21]

Is your CAI a cone filter on the MAF sensor? If so you will have better results sticking with the stock airbox, as it is a true CAI (draws air from outside the engine bay via the fender and front grille).

[storey618]

im sorry to thread jack but i have a question along the same lines. im currently trying to clean up my bay and hate the way the airbox/heatshield on my afe intake looks so i was debating on pulling them out to just have an open intake. i have a fmic...would it really affect it that much with the extra heat if its going through the front mount?

[Arnie91]

Is your CAI a cone filter on the MAF sensor? If so you will have better results sticking with the stock airbox, as it is a true CAI (draws air from outside the engine bay via the fender and front grille).

its a CAI intake with silicone piping attached to the duct where the stock snorkel is.
I know the concensus is that its very hard to beat the stock air box, but my snorkel wasn't fitting properly and had a split in it.

The turbo also spools quicker for sure. It's more responsive and the acceleration is slightly more aggressiv although I dont have maps to back this up.

[texasboy21]

im sorry to thread jack but i have a question along the same lines. im currently trying to clean up my bay and hate the way the airbox/heatshield on my afe intake looks so i was debating on pulling them out to just have an open intake. i have a fmic...would it really affect it that much with the extra heat if its going through the front mount?

An intercooler can only cool the intake air X degrees. If the air going into the FMIC is 100* hotter with the hot air intake vs airbox, then the air leaving the FMIC (entering the engine) will be 100* hotter as well. With a cone on the MAF I saw IATs 117* hotter than the stock airbox, which killing the timing advance and over all performance.

[userbob0001]

It's not quite as simple as X degrees. It's a function of the temperature differential between the inside and the outside. So pulling hotter air into the MAF means you'll dump more air from the intercooler into the condenser and radiator and you'll still end up putting hotter air into the engine than if you were able to pull cooler air into the MAF in the first place.