Spectre 9900 intake

[fire730]

Paint it white.

Wasn't the old hot rod trick to paint the underside of the intake manifold white to help reflect the radiant heat?

Also is the air even in the tube long enough to soak up the heat?

You would need to do a comparison with a temp probe in the airstream right by the throttle body to see if the actual air temps are different. The factory IAT is probably close to the filter right? (Sad I don't know where it is on my own truck) I think a reading right before the throttle body would give the best reading to see if the air is even soaking up the heat.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[gringoloco]

couldn't hurt to wrap it or ceramic paint it

 

[KrautBurner]

do you like the cai ? is it worth the 130 ish dollars.....

yeah,

I love the sound.
I'm very glad to get rid of all that piping under the hood.

BTW,
this is one of the least expensive CAI kits I've ever had

---------- Post added at 09:30 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:27 AM ----------

If anybody is willing to paint one and has a infared temp gun do a before and after temp and compare. I'm willing to bet the painted one will be cooler. Just my 2 cents!

no need for a temp gun,
and it dosn't really matter what temp the air is when sitting in a driveway

what matters are the IAT's (Intake Air Tempatures) when driving
that can be observed using the engine's computer and factory sensors.

just plug in a laptop.
get real time IAT's while driving.


(I forgot to do any data logging before changing my intake pipe)

---------- Post added at 09:33 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:30 AM ----------

couldn't hurt to wrap it or ceramic paint it

Header Wrap
http://www.summitracing.com/search/...rap/?keyword=Header+Wrap&autoview=ProductName

 

[brad6603]

So has anyone wrapped or painted their CAI pipe yet? My Spectre gets too hot to touch as well. I have no idea if my stock plastic pipe got this hot.