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Has anybody tried header wrapping their intake to keep it from heating up? do the same principles that keep heat from escaping the wrap allow it to prevent other stuff heating up?

 
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please explain what header wrapping is, then i can give you my oppinion

 
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its a wrap that is put aroudn your header to reduce the amount of heat that escapes into your engine bay. Up to 70% drop in heat they say.

 
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or u could try using the header wrap on the headers and then u dont have that much engine bay heat and then u dont have to really wrap the intake unless u already did wrap and ur trying to keep the intake even cooler.

theres one way to find out u can always try it out and see for urslef

 
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this is nice but expensive

http://www.designengineering.com/pro...sp?m=sp&pid=33

 
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Yeah i was gonna go ahead and wrap both. with out engines, every little bit you can do helps.

 
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hmmm...that may be teh way to go. header wrap is like $25 for the smallest roll. ill prolly easily spend 70 bucks on wrap to do the intake too.

 
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http://www.7thgencivic.com/forums/sh...ghlight=thermo



heres a few quotes about heat wrapping the intake from another forum



"Heat wrap is actually designed for professional race cars to battle the heat problem at high rpms/mph. I dont recommend using it for street cars. The problem is, when there is heat there is condensation. The water gets trapped under the wrap and starts to eat away at the metal. Professional race cars break thier motors down every couple of races for a rebuild, so the heat wrap gets changed. "

"I've done this before. I had little or no results. The main reason is because air in the intake is traveling so fast ."

 
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haha from honda-tech eh. good transfer. oh and thats the damn truth folks

 
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well if the tube is too hot to touch, it won't matter how fast air flows. And you gotta think the air in the engine bay is already very hot. But just wrapping the tube doesn't make sense. The wrap will eventually get hot and then heat the tube even more, then insulate the heat inside the wrap. Any kind of shield won't really be possible with our engine bay. Other cars are easy, the filter is completely isolated and then there's just the tube also away from the engine. We just have a crap setup.

 
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here is some heat wrapping

 
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Use the reflective stuff. You don't want to keep heat in (thats what header wrap does), you want to repel it (thats what the reflective stuff does).

I've got the **** all over the place
www.jegs.com
I don't remember what category its under. Try exhaust then sift through the subcategories

 
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^Its prolly a bad idea to wrap that tube connecting the intake to the crankcase. It gets hot and the wrap just traps in more heat. Anyway, air actually moves FROM the intake INTO the crankcase so there isn't much worry about temp of the intake charge from that.

 
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The thermocouples disagree with you. Play the run hard, sit in grid game.... engine bay gets hot and you can cook on anything metal. If you can insulate it... it takes longer for the heat to get to it.

 
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eh.

doesnt really stay in long enough to get heated up anyways.

and I think ill agreed that header wrap for intake will probably work better for something that keeps heat out, not keep heat trap in.. which is what header wrap is for.