heatwrapping intercooler piping??

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Dec 28, 2005 | 09:28 AM

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Just Dave

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Mine's nowhere near the pan either, but it is close to my (now metal) upper radiator house, intercooler to TB pipe, and EFI system.

Dec 28, 2005 | 09:49 AM

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Drivermod03

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Yea I found a place where header wrap is 50 cents a foot...Thats pretty cheap

Dec 28, 2005 | 11:27 AM

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im looking at doing one of these

Dec 28, 2005 | 12:51 PM

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Yea I found a place where header wrap is 50 cents a foot...Thats pretty cheap

That is cheap. Is that local? Do they have black?

Dec 28, 2005 | 02:19 PM

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Yea I found a place where header wrap is 50 cents a foot...Thats pretty cheap

1" or 2" wide? come in black?

Dec 28, 2005 | 03:45 PM

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1" or 2" wide? come in black?

2" wide and no black which kinda sucks

Dec 28, 2005 | 03:47 PM

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2" wide and no black which kinda sucks

where is this place?

Dec 28, 2005 | 05:10 PM

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well, I dont know about you guys...but most of the heat on my hot side I/C piping comes from the compressed air coming from the turbo...it just seems to me since heat wrap would prevent that air from getting out(just like a header or DP) it would keep the intake air hotter....now this may not be the case with all of you...depending on how close to the exhaust your I/C piping runs...but for me, since my turbo is at the back of the engine...the DP is over a foot away from the hot side pipe...it seems much more effective to heat wrape the DP

Dec 28, 2005 | 05:22 PM

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my turbo sits a little underneath my I/C pipe that connects to the tb. anything i can do to cool it will give me cooler temps entering the tb.

can see my turbo sits to the lower left just under the bend in the I/C

Dec 28, 2005 | 05:33 PM

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Boostin97SE-R

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this is true but the same theory works for the cold side of the intercooler piping. you keep the cold air in and the hot air from the engine bay out. I think you would gain more wrapping the cold side of the intercooler rather than the hot side. i would probably leave the hot side as is unless it was next to the exhaust.

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