sounds good, i'm sure someone could make up a blanket of flexible hoses with some sort of reflective sheet on the upper side like you said. or maybe before the plenum and intake manifold are installed, copper lines could be bent and contorted to hug the intake and attached solid, and then covered with heat shields and mounted to the engine. then you could run whatever cooling system to this via connectors - then you can remove the intake when you need to.
i thought of the extra radiator but you'd have to find a flud that would actually get cold enough to help, or maybe you could rig up an ice system with water what woulc circulate over ice cubes placed in the tank early before the run. ice absorbs all the heat from incoming water, and sents cool water to the intake....it would only be temporary though.
but i dunno...maybe since the system is just the intake and doesnt touch the engine block water jacket it wouldnt get really hot? i was thinking of something cold cold.... like a No2 sprayer on the intercooler or the AC piping. i'm not sure what pipes are that cold but i know that on my mom's van, there is an exposed ac line i touched once and it was very cold...so if that....freon maybe...could be re-routed (remove cabin AC in the process) you could hit the AC 10-20 min before racing and trigger it off when the tree begins to light...
but then there's the problem of such differing temps.
i'm a bit worried that such colt flud running against metal that is very hot on one end might cause some bad effects. i'm not to familliar with this kind of thing but hopefully it wouldnt cause warpage...
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