Excellent! I have a similar CAI on my Accord. It's noticeably weaker in this Texas heat. It was great to see it dropped the intake temp by about 30 degrees. I'm going to do something similar to mine because of this. Thanks!
I’d definitely be interested in seeing that other motor and super charger in a small truck I think that would be awesome ! Also glad to hear you were able to find a rebuild kit for that as well. Keep up the great videos man 👍 I’m always looking forward to them !
Just fyi. Dont use this on the cold side intercooler piping. If anything use it on the hot side. The outlet temps of the intercooler piping on the cold side need to have the length of pipe to cool off from intercooler exit to throttle body inlet. If you put this over your cold side it will keep the heat in. Reguardless of its reflective properties it will increase your inlet temps if you wrap the cold side. Let that side "breathe" so to speak. Wrapping the hot side will be beneficial because its closer to heat from the manifold and turbo.
The polished intake pipe already reflexes some heat. You'll see a big benefit from the oem intake if you wrap it with the gold tape. Still cool looking, though
Instead of wasting money on an intake I'm doing exactly that. My car is silver so I'm doing the engine bay theme silver with red accents. Just bought silver heat tape for $12 to wrap the stock intake. I might make a video on it for fun 😊
Thanks for video! Thats crazy! How much hp u think you gain? Rule of thumb -10 temp means about 1.2% increase as i remember :p so about 3.6% looks rly great if this mathematicalnis correct ;)
I think a j-series in an S10 or ranger would be pretty cool. If you are really looking to save weight though look for a Mazda B-series pickup. They are pretty much a ranger that weighs less. Mazda lightened them quite a bit. You can see with both trucks on a lift Mazda didn't brace up the body or bed anywhere near as much as Ford. With a truck though all the strength is in the frame so it just ends up lighter.
I would take either at this point I’m not too picky but I prefer the Mazda. I will be using it as a work truck until the J swap stuff is figured out. Haha
awesome video! I was avoiding looking into this too much because I was worried it wouldnt actually help my high intake temps, but I'm really excited to install it on my intercooler piping and make my car happier!
Awesome data collected from a reflective tape wrap! This vid should help my Rx8 reduce temps. Excited to see your Ranger/KA/Mazda build. I had no idea that you can mate a KA with an Rx8 trans? Hopefully in the near future I would like to transform my Rx8 to an RXK !
I have 3.7 SH-awd intake manifold and throttle body with 4" intake on my 3.2 base. I wrapped both the manifold and intake in the gold and of course the IAT is relocated to the intake. IAT Temps Stay close to outside Temps, especially in fall a winter
Yea that will do it for sure. The intake sensor i prefer on the intake manifold that’s why I drilled and tapped mine to be on the manifold. It gives me more of a look at what’s going on inside the manifold temps vs air coming into the throttle temp.
2015 Ford Fusion 1.5 turbo custom ram intake pullin from outside the front grill. -2 to -4 Celsius @night and 7 to 14 Celsius @daytime. One of the Best setup around so far🏎💨🥶🥶 hottest It gets is sitting at idle.
Keep those vids coming ma brother. good information. i like how you break things down. I got a few questions maybe you can help/ 1) what will happen if a person pushes exhaust gas straight into an intercooler then into the intake without using a turbo. 2) why can't the hondata program work for the 2002 honda accord?
That wouldn’t work since the exhaust gases aren’t carrying in oxygen molecules and the air to air wouldn’t cool exhaust gases down enough even if it did have enough oxygen or I burnt fuel to recirculate. Never heard that one before. Hondata can work if you ecu swap and rewire it too. I didn’t design Hondata though so I’m not really sure beyond that.
Mishimoto coolant reservoir was a nice mod on my 05 6MT TL you should look it bro 👌 helps reduce temp in a coated bottle and looks better relocating away from front exhaust cat 👍
Yea I’m sure that would help. My temps are great right now. Coolant temp is around 185 some times lower it’s a great range for a J series but either way it wouldn’t hurt to reduce heat even more.
Ive noticed this tape on my recent brought h22 motor i thought it was to make tha motor look fancy nancy ,but to know its actually a functional piece of tape 🤔 hope its another clue to a built motor besides noticing skunk2 cam gears..Proud 3rd gen Prelude owner 😎..
I could see this being used mostly for the no hood kinda guys with a black intake pipe in direct sunlight making a difference tho. Never tried just a guess
@@TexasHondaChannel man if I hadn't scrapped my ranger id have donated it. But after vandals busted out every window , it wasn't worth the cost to replace them.
@@TexasHondaChannel will do! My ranger would have been a perfect candidate too! It was as base model as they come, literally rubber floor mats, manual transmission, no power steering, no power anything, no ac. Even had a filler plate where a stereo would go when I got it and no wiring for speakers or speakers in the doors. It was super light, just a steering wheel, shifter, gauges, heater and a vinyl bench seat. People never understood why the thing would scream with just a small 4cyl, but it was as light as a stripped down honda civic lol
Those bearings on the supercharger should have a slight play....totally normal but any leaks definitely needs attention😏hey u can try a heat shield under the throttle body too works wonders with keeping the temps down from the tranny etc.🥶
That’s a good idea too. I got the temps to the lowest I ever seen yet at 97 degrees last night that’s crazy to me because it was 80 something out. Either way i will get the supercharger sorted out for sure.
If you run header wrap be mindful of the material the headers are made from if they are just cheap mild steel headers header wrap can melt the steel. Keeps the engine bay temperature way down but holds all the heat into the material.
Yes good point I failed to mention. Cast Iron definitely holds heat really bad I remember my turbo manifolds that were cast. On stock it’s not always the best idea but I have done it with decent results. Then again I didn’t have the stock manifolds on very long so no idea on long term usage.
@@TexasHondaChannel wrapping your manifolds or headers is power to be gained in 2 ways too. It promotes exhaust evacuation from the engine and keeps the under hood temps down. I never understood why Honda chose to put the exhaust manifold up next to the radiator on the older 4 cylinders. I always thought that is a horrible spot to put all the heat. Airflow at the firewall isn't great either so it makes it much harder to keep the intake manifold as cool as possible. They did reverse flow on the cylinder head though in the K-series engines which helped quite a bit for N/A builds.
hey man , cool video !! i have a 2001 yamaha r6 with carburetors , i notice on cold days it runs very smooth , warm days fine .. but if if its warm and im in stop / start city traffic after say 15 minutes the bike runs slighty less smooth . do you think it possible that the air its getting too hot in traffic ? if i immediatly then take it on big roads and hammer the bike it smooths out . always seems to be commuting this happens . and does header wrap make differnce also ? i know its not a car but same surely applies
I can’t go to the Dyno after every single mod but I have a lot of other videos showing numbers of other items before and after. I did put the info i had in the video.
I don’t have a Ford Escape and don’t have plans to ever own one. I was thinking a small truck because I need a work truck. It don’t even have to be a Ford and the engine from my TL with the supercharger installed will be swapped in some day. That’s my goal at least.
@@qrs3658 People don’t even donate to the channel with the link in the description and barley ever get donations on superchat so doubt anyone will give me money for a Ford Escape I don’t want lol. I need property and land for a shop if they wanna donate to that I’m down! Lol
If you’re not planning on tuning your car after installing a new intake, you’d be better off insulating your stock intake. Your car was designed to work with a certain amount of airflow, and adding more airflow could actually have the opposite of your desired effect.
bro you actually know nothing about tuning cars LOL i have upgraded induction kit. cars are plug and plug with these. just lets them breathe more. can get better and faster acceleration too, hence why people use them. race cars dont use stock air filters. why. same reason.
@@DR_KILLAMILLAgenerally yes. But a lot of modern cars or at least US domestic made cars the maf sensors are super sensitive to intake changes and will generally at best trigger a code and at worst go into limp mode. I think because of the stupid EPA manufacturers are now programming their ecu's to fight against any mods.....but that is where tuning comes in.
Thanks man! A lot of heavy lifting and eating some calories helps! I don’t fuck with steroids like some jackasses assumed already. I took that as a compliment though because that means I’m getting bigger haha lol 😂
You can but the main thing that deflects the heat is the color. It don’t absorb infrared like other colors do. Silver and gold are the best at deflecting heat. Engineering Explained does a great segment on this on how the science works.
We could theorize from this that reflective tape keeps heat from the cool air in the piping while insulating wrap insulates the cooler air inside the pipe, keeping it cool. Sounds like both inhibit temperature transfer, a case of six in one hand, a half-dozen in the other.
It doesnt fall if you clean all the surfaces with alcohol or cetone. 1 year with all the intake covered with heattape in my nissan bluebird turbo and 0 problems. You can feel the car responsive at all range of temperatures and driving conditions, where the car was slower in summer time now works perfect. But it has to be accompained with a K&N filter to make the air pass quicker than the stock filter to prevent the air get hot.
figures that a guy that rhino coated his whole car did not realize that if anything your paint is keeping your engine bay hotter than a toaster. apparently you don't understand why rhino coating is great to keep moisture out. you just increased the amount of heat that your hood is going to absorb cuz of that rhino lining.
the purpose of this "gold" foil is to reflect up to 80-85% of the radiated heat inside the bonnet, so, it is not adequate to internal but external, if you see real racing applications, they put it on all those parts were is necessary to keep it cooler, like the intake manifolds/airbox, the parts near exhaust headers subject to problems if too much heat (coils, wirings, liquids etc). Consider this is against "radiated" heat, but components will continue to heat if in contact with hot components, for example, the intake manifold, usually it is in contact with the engine head, so receives heat by "conduction" you can reduce a little this conducted heat putting a gasket/spacer between Head and intake manifold with better isolation as how is used in racing applications, and maybe, wrap the manifold with this gold foil in all those areas where hot radiations hits the manifold.
Is that hondata flash pro a standalone ecu or a piggyback ecu type? I’ve got a integra type r stock ecu planning to get one just like yours and was just wondering if anyone has any suggestions?
go with a hondata p600 or s300 depending on what you're planning. if you're planning to boost it i'd just save up for a fueltech. i love hondata but when i boosted my gsr swapped had hondata for 2 weeks and switched to fueltech. now i use fueltech for everything. if i could fueltech my lawn mower i probably would.
@@carloriveralol8276 i don’t even remember commenting this💀 I’ve cleaned everything outta my engine bay and it’s all shaved and painted… the stock y 7 manifold compared to the stock y8 or even z6 is so much more tedious to remove
5:51. You must have skipped ahead. He drove before taping, data logged, taped up the intake, then he replayed the data log on his laptop before doing the drive with it taped and the data logging again.
