DIY Gold Foil heat wrap intake box

[roddy]

Originally Posted by Diode Dynamics

Hahaha dang you! That's what I was going to post

I think OP should take this a step further:




Nick C.

Oldsmobile power! FU*K YEAH!

[nemes]

This is sick

[FRSfan111]

Decided to do it too. Figured I have an oil cooler, might as well hear wrap it too.

[White64Goat]

Fo Shizzle FRzizzle............

[DoomsdayJesus]

Originally Posted by Braxton...

lol I was going to say that NASA uses stuff like this for satellites and space ships to insulate them from the harsh temperatures of space I wonder if you could wrap headers with this stuff.

It's not direct heat so much as it is radiation and IR radiation. Gold is specially suited to filtering out/blocking IR and other types of radiation, which causes a transfer of heat energy upon impact with a solid body (and why radioactive metals are warm to the touch).

For the same reason, it's effective in cars at blocking radiated heat, although a small buffer layer (foam, etc...) would drastically enhance that effect.

[stevo_12v]

If anyone's doing this to lower intake temps.. which they obviously are. Don't forget to BYPASS the radiator plumbing on the throttle body. That gets hot to the touch after 15mins of normal driving.

Here's my updated intake.

[ATL BRZ]

Originally Posted by stevo_12v

If anyone's doing this to lower intake temps.. which they obviously are. Don't forget to BYPASS the radiator plumbing on the throttle body. That gets hot to the touch after 15mins of normal driving

Pics or a DIY for this would be great, as well as part number for a bypass coupler.

[stevo_12v]

Originally Posted by ATL BRZ

Pics or a DIY for this would be great, as well as part number for a bypass coupler.

Doesn't need a new part, just unhook the radiator tubing off the TB and route back into the system, just bypass the TB altogether. Not recommended in VERY cold climates though, the reason the radiator passes through the TB is so the butterfly doesn't freeze solid and can open/close.

** go through my build thread around where I bought my TODA big throttle body, it will show the pipes for the radiator hosing, just don't connect those up.

UPDATE: Found it
Pic courtesy of @MAPerformance
Just install the TB like that...WITHOUT hooking up those two connectors. Easy done. One of the hoses *should* be long enough to plug it back into the radiator system.