So I've been really interested in dropping my intake temperatures and was thinking that if I wrapped my intake in exhaust wrap that it may do the trick? I currently have a stillen intake and a z-tube. I have seen pictures of some cars with the intake wrapped but wanted to see if you guys have any helpful ideas? I did use the search engine and found very little info! Any ideas on the material I should use? Thanks guys!

 

when I bought my ztube, I wrapped it with heat reflective tape/wrap .. honestly though, I took it off after a month because it not only did nothing for the heat but it took away from how good the ztube looks without anything on it .. I'm pretty sure the Motordyne plenum spacer helps lower your temps and you would actually see and FEEL a difference but, unless you LIKE the look of the heat wrap, I'd avoid it because temperature differences would be VERY MINIMAL at the best .. good luck

 

I already have a spacer and mrev2. I really think our cars would benifit from much colder intake temperatures I wanna figure it out!

 

You live in Denver and you have a Stillen z-tube/intake that are made of plastic composit, you don't have any heat issues. With that intake from Stillen you'll never need to worry about heat soak....drive and enjoy!
Gary

 

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Yes you live in a very cold climate that SNOWS and its winter now

 

that and the plastic ztube....no problems with heat. im running AND satisfied with the AFE stage2 intake. all plastic, nicely made shield, big filter, and it just looks good lol

 

Throw in a Motordyne Aramid gasket if you want. Those bring down temps. It was noticeable on mine.

 

i would think if we ran a real cold air intake that was heat wrapped, there would be a decent drop in intake air temps over just running the cold air intake…

 

yeah the aramid helps....im running one too.....but the question on this topic is the engine bay heat and how to keep the intake air temps as low as possible

 

This topic has been covered before, it was generally found that intakes don't really benefit from being heat wrapped with exhaust wrap.

 

true. just get a good designed intake. lol

 

.....which would be the stock intake

 

kinda. 06 revup with ztube. Technically all stock parts but you can't g35's don't come stock with both . Also filter is another matter of debate (k&n vs paper)

 

I have been told that the K&N inhibits the performance of the MAF sensor… it that were to be true, i would never want one in my car… but i have only been told… no hard facts from me

 

Only thing I have really heard about that is if you put too much oil/don't let it dry correctly and having some of the oil get on the MAF and mess it up.