"heat treating" intake with paint?

Heat wrap is some great stuff. I wrapped my turbo manifold with it and used that silicone based paint. Worked wonders.

mikeD16Z6 said:

Heat wrap is some great stuff. I wrapped my turbo manifold with it and used that silicone based paint. Worked wonders.

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yup when I did it on my header I could touch the primaries when the car was runing. w/o the wrap and paint I wouldnt have fingerprints .

I just painted the intake pipe

94EXa2 said:

i have an aem sri on my z6 and want 2 paint it (that shiny chrome look is just too blingtastic) and want to try and keep it from heatsoaking.....would i be better off using dupli-color engine enamel with ceramic?(used on vc, still have can) or krylon bbq&stove paint (used on headlights, still have can)....i know they both withstand heat but which one would help keep heat out of my intake?...t.i.a

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prior to getting my fake j intake had the dei intake kit on my intake piping

94EXa2 said:

im gonna use the bbq paint b/c its flat black and the engine enamel is red....just got tired of the shiny chrome intake and figured one of the 2 MIGHT help a LITTLE

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Painting your intake pipe Black ...will only increase the temp of your intake pipe.

Seeing as black absorbs heat

modsHXcivi said:

Painting your intake pipe Black ...will only increase the temp of your intake pipe.

Seeing as black absorbs heat

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i believe thats one of the reasons the sr 71 blackbird is black? white is probably the most colour then?

Certain coatings actually shead heat. Like radiator paint.

this post makes me wonder why intake tubing is even made of aluminum... my fake j intake, iceman, k&n, and probably a few others are made out of plastic which makes more sense...hell its even easier to get tapered sizes using plastic than aluminum..only reason i see is probably cost to manufacture other than that?

I really don't think it will be any significant, but you never know. Someone with a spare day and that can do a simple data-logging profile for intake temperature should do a small test.

But given that, why don't turbo people do it? At least that Ive never seen. Id think it would be more of a problem for them somewhat. But NA as well. Ive thought about doing to my car with the SC, but prob wont unless I do a test myself, or someone do one. Then again, I hate that shiny ass intake.

main thing was i got tired of seein that shiny ass aem intake after a yr......but the bbq help'd a lil.....after driving my car hard for a while the im got scorchin hot and the intake tube was a lil hot 2 the touch, now the tube feels cold...yes cold, but the IM is STILL super hott

94EXa2 said:

main thing was i got tired of seein that shiny ass aem intake after a yr......but the bbq help'd a lil.....after driving my car hard for a while the im got scorchin hot and the intake tube was a lil hot 2 the touch, now the tube feels cold...yes cold, but the IM is STILL super hott

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Granted your intake tube was cooler (aside from weather differences and other variables) it doesn't mean the air coming in is cooler. You could even be making it worse my insulating it and not letting the hot air dissipate. However all of this is theoretical, unless we get some numbers. Granted I may eventually do this for the aesthetic reasons as you did.

P.S. Do you have a hondata IM gasket or simliar by chance? You might want to consider that if you know what i mean...

hondata IM and reroute the coolant lines from the IM and the TB!!!

at the 1/4mile I started at 16.4 and ended the night at 16.8 due to heatsoak . this was 00 ex with i/e

Speedjunky01 said:

hondata IM and reroute the coolant lines from the IM and the TB!!!

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Curious what do you mean reroute the coolant lines from the IM and TB??? Link, Pics, etc!?!?

lilred said:

Curious what do you mean reroute the coolant lines from the IM and TB??? Link, Pics, etc!?!?

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I have yet to find a good guide so im just DIY. basicly there are lines that run to the IM and TB to heat them up in extreme cold to prevent freezing.

as the coolant heats up it goes through the IM and TB heating it all up, rerouting or blocking the lines prevents hot coolant from heatsoaking the IM&TB.

also if you read hondatas data their results are only AFTER rerouting the coolant, w/o rerouting the hondata gasket wouldnt do ANYTHING.

lilred said:

Curious what do you mean reroute the coolant lines from the IM and TB??? Link, Pics, etc!?!?

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just bypass the coolant lines going to the tb...run line from im back to the head

theres a coolant bypass write-up. its on a f22 iirc, but should be the same in theory.

edit: forgot the link. lol

http://www.superhonda.com/forum/showthread.php?t=126421

YES found a GREAT link for it!

http://www.lyonel.orcon.net.nz/tb_bypass.htm

Painting for appearance makes sense.... I've used bbq paint from home depot a few times.

But, how long does the air actually sit in the intake? a tenth of a second? .. I think it makes more sense to pay attention to intake location than worrying about heatsink

hybridx said:

Painting for appearance makes sense.... I've used bbq paint from home depot a few times.

But, how long does the air actually sit in the intake? a tenth of a second? .. I think it makes more sense to pay attention to intake location than worrying about heatsink

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every little bit helps. just look at what speedjunky01 said. 16.4 to 16.8 in a night due to heatsink (i doubt he was becoming a worse and worse driver) thats kind of a big deal.

Try powder coating it, but I think It will just help for appearance...