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Built a heat shield
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:05 pm
by 16bit
Decided that i no longer wanted hot air induction so I built a heat shield on the weekend. Just made it out of .6mm aluminium. It actually works quite will. I am going to get some heat reflective stuff from clark rubber on the weekend.
I also built a little dry ice box under the filter. It worked ok and lasted about 30mins. It was really hot on saturday in brisbane and i would say that it went as good as it would on a cold evening (summer evening that is).
I think i am going to eventually get quad throttle bodies from injection perfection so I am not really going to bother doing much more with this intake.
thought i would throw in a pic of my extractors and tein strut tops.
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:29 pm
by Boags
Noice.
EDIT: Want to help me make one?
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:30 pm
by fastfreddygassit
Nice.
What did you use to fold the aluminium?
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:48 pm
by kitkat
Nice work!!!
I like the idea of the double insulation between the headers!
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:55 pm
by irwin83r
i like i like..
you should of looked at making a cold side short intake. with your skills it looks like you could of made a killer one.
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 10:11 pm
by Astroboysoup
yes yes very nice.. does it go all the way to the top touching the bonnet?
can anyone measure tempreature differences?
need some equipment...
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:45 am
by 16bit
yeah i thought that may have been the case but it seemed to work ok. Definitly would work better with a heat exchange unit feeding just cold air. Not really worth the time in r and d for a road going non turbo car.
I just bent it by hand. I bought a crappy stanley knife and scored where I wanted the folds and used a hard corner to bend to the desired angle. did a similar thing to make the cuts too. I made a template first then made a nice version.
Its pretty much to the bonnet but i will be putting rubber on the edge to make up the gap.
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:21 pm
by sabretooth
Boags and Gerard mentioned your shield recently, so I had to check it out. Very very nice.
Did you end up getting any heat reflective material? If so, what'd it set you back?
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:54 am
by 16bit
yeah i did, but it was crap from clark rubber and melted on a mt glorious run. I did however wrap the intake pipe with some other stuff. it was only about 20 bucks a square meter from the same place. will post a pic or two tomorrow.