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Originally posted by Matt D.@Jul 3 2004, 10:49 AM
He was talking about the I/C piping post-intercooler. No shit the piping right off the turbo will be hot.
Your thoughts about air traveling further and being given more time to cool off are pointless. The air is contained in a metal pipe, which not only is getting constantly heated by the heat under the hood but by the air in the pipe itself. It is also traveling so fast that the few feet it travels is negilgent in it actually having time to cool off during its journey. Once air leaves the intercooler it will heat up again before it cools off. Like I said, engine heat will always keep the piping and manifold hot, nothing we have will ever be perfectly insulated against heat.
The head does in fact give the intake manifold the majority of its heat. Direct contact with the engine will do that to anything.
Trust us. With the phenolic spacer in place you can touch the intake manifold where as you can not without it.
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didnt you just argue against a phenolic spacer being worthwhile?
"Your thoughts about air traveling further and being given more time to cool off are pointless. The air is contained in a metal pipe, which not only is getting constantly heated by the heat under the hood but by the air in the pipe itself. It is also traveling so fast that the few feet it travels is negilgent in it actually having time to cool off during its journey. "
so how does the heat of the metal intake manifold matter for the 12" the air travels through it at high speed? if the heat dissapation when in the I/C piping is negligable because of the time the air spends in it/the speed at which it's moving, wouldn't the heat absorption in the intake manifold be even more negligable since the air spends even less time in it as it's travelling like 1 foot through it at the same speed as the I/C piping?
who cares how hot a flame is when all you're doing is waving your hand through it at high speed? your hand isn't in it long enough to be heated and burned.