Thanks guys, Instead of heat wrapping the alloy pipe what about my idea of HPC coating? it is heat resistant up to well over 400 degrees could this be an option to prevent it warming up?
7MGE air intake help
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Put your hand on the thing after a drive and tell me how long you can hold it. If you read the thread more carefully you would know that the OP bought the car with a poorly installed pod filter on the intake and is looking to make it right.
jetjock;1870497 said:
Great observation.
3p141592654;1870583 said:
^Exactly. That is why I heat wrapped my intake pipe. After a short drive I couldn't even touch the pipe for a few seconds. After wrapping the pipe, I could grab the underside and it was warm at best.
To those who keep saying "it's just a GE" "it's not worth it" "why bother?"; Not all of us have turbos and money but we still enjoy our cars, enjoy working on them and making improvements, even small ones. Seriously, what does it matter to you? lol
Typhoon;1870571 said:
This doesn't really have anything to do with what I am wanting to achieve, read the first post
MPR;1870605 said:
EXACTLY. All I need is someone with experience to tell me the exact and proper way of re building this as the PREVIOUS OWNER installed a very bad system (CHECK POST ONE)
Some IAT data I took on my way home today (although it is a GTE they both have AFMs in the same place). Its a 15 minute drive and ambient temp was 25C. By the time I was home my IAT was 40C (as measured by the ECU at the AFM). That's 104F for those who like Fahrenheit. Just a 15 minute drive in the evening and half of it on the freeway, A/C was off.
5 min after start
15 minutes later
5 min after start
15 minutes later
ryansmith;1870632 said:
You should fix the filter but the point was anything beyond that is basically money down the toilet. Nor would I be taking advice from someone who runs an open filter on an NA engine just to hear it suck more than it already does. It's your cash though...
It will not only clean my engine bay up and make air flow better than it currently is but will let me know it has been done properly, any other options that may help me out it appretiated
jetjock;1870706 said:
Again, I only opened the front of the air box leaving the rest to continue to act as a heat shield. It cost me nothing and I get the satisfaction of hearing the nice 7M more when I step on it (sorry if I like to hear my engine a little more than the average person...lol). No, that did nothing to help performance or lower IAT's, but it was something I wanted to do with my car. What's it to you? Has nothing to do with my knowledge base either.
To help lower IAT's I replaced the factory intake resonator (which is only there to make the engine quiet) and which used to get very hot, and replaced it with a heat wrapped aluminum pipe. That did make an improvement, even if it was a small one, and cost me next to nothing. Money down the toilet? Maybe to you, that's fine.
The OP asked for opinions/suggestions. I gave mine. What he chooses to do with his car is his choice. Glad you at least agree with that.
well for starters......1. if your here saying get a turbo, go ahead and GTFO cuz this is GE section aint to T in GE.
2. i live in ohio so cant say for anyone else but my cone filter doesnt nor my AFM get hot what so ever the supra engine bays are stupid big for Japanese makes but MPR is dead right on the intake to throttle body cuz that shit gets hella hot. so for a good intake get a cone filter some 3 inch metal tubing, heat wrap and if you want to get a lilttle more hp just run a cold air like mine.
2. i live in ohio so cant say for anyone else but my cone filter doesnt nor my AFM get hot what so ever the supra engine bays are stupid big for Japanese makes but MPR is dead right on the intake to throttle body cuz that shit gets hella hot. so for a good intake get a cone filter some 3 inch metal tubing, heat wrap and if you want to get a lilttle more hp just run a cold air like mine.
Well actually you cant really buy any other type of intake that doesnt go over the head to the exhaust side. Its where toyota has there hidden torque technology lol but yeah it does help alot just needs to be cooler
oh good one, maybe if you were smart enough to know i was talking about general temp. of the state say compared to texas im sure thered be a big fucking difference smart ass.
Yeah I just checked and Ohio seemed pretty damn hot, hotter than where I took the data you don't believe. Texas? WTF?
