hawlass Silver Donating Members 1,161 Member For: 17y 3m 23d Gender: Male Location: left right out Posted 13/08/10 08:05 PM Share Posted 13/08/10 08:05 PM Found this, any one seen or tried this sort of thing? MANIFOLD INSULATOR To suit EF-BF 6 Cylinder for sale - TradeMe.co.nz - New Zealand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjc Donating Members 2,823 Member For: 21y 6m Gender: Male Location: Townsville Posted 14/08/10 01:33 AM Share Posted 14/08/10 01:33 AM Your in NZ, isn't it snowing there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda Eyes flame magnet Gold Donating Members 5,674 Member For: 16y 9m 15d Gender: Male Location: adelaide hills- 'race air' central Posted 14/08/10 01:41 AM Share Posted 14/08/10 01:41 AM sure you would get heat soak from the block, but the ambient temp under the bonnet would be stinking hot so the inlet maniford would be too hot to touch on a hard run even with one of these installed.unless you could wrap the intake manifold in some sort of insulation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawlass Silver Donating Members 1,161 Member For: 17y 3m 23d Gender: Male Location: left right out Posted 14/08/10 05:17 AM Author Share Posted 14/08/10 05:17 AM Your in NZ, isn't it snowing there? Yeah down country on the mountains, but hell!, its winter! - keeps the snow bunnys happy, except the 1000+ people who got trapped up there in 200+kmph winds on Thursday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino1980 09JET Member 1,510 Member For: 15y 8m 12d Gender: Male Location: E. Maitland Posted 14/08/10 05:27 AM Share Posted 14/08/10 05:27 AM It makes sense the same way a phenolic carbie spacer works. Testing would be needed though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impellor Member 835 Member For: 14y 7m 12d Gender: Not Telling Posted 14/08/10 08:17 AM Share Posted 14/08/10 08:17 AM (edited) yeah I am will Rhino, very logical, heak soak from an engine is going to be much higher than ambient temp(that is engine bay), and further simple ideas are often the best,cheers Edited 14/08/10 08:25 AM by Impellor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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