Applied heat-reflective tape to my intake today.

[Maleficio]

Guess I'll just locate a piece of aluminum sheet metal and go to town with my tin snips and drill.

 

[Maleficio]

Then again, maybe the tape is not as good as I thought. Maybe it's shit?

 

[Maleficio]

I want my intake air unadulterated. I want the ambient temp at all times, city or highway.

 

[Maleficio]

I'm thinking of trying this. I recently pulled my Stillen for Smog check & put stock box in. Still running aftermarket tube (CF) and I dont notice any butt gains from the intake change. And that's with a stock paper filter in stock box. Maybe change the panel filter into K/N or dry media & get your tape. I've always thought the Stillen box cuts were a bit open for air intake. Car is much quieter now, which is not horrible as I can hear the Nismo exhaust a little more

Sorry for not responding to your post.

The radiator top releases a tremendous amount of heat upward right into the factory intake and this affects timing.

Regarding aftermarket "cold air" intakes, I can't stand hearing the intake breath.

Perhaps the 45's intake design is flawed. Actually, it is flawed. But it combines the two elements I want: cold air and ram air (after I ripped out the air dam).

Even though the Newtex tape is failing I'm still getting what I want. I just need a permanent solution. A legit heat shield.

 

[gto]

I've been on the fence on this one, feeling it would get a bit messy. Everything is just so clean right now. My other reservation is going through smog check. I like to tell the techs that everything is sorta stock & it looks that way when I faux cover up the plenum. Thinking the tape will get them looking around more

 

[Maleficio]

I've been on the fence on this one, feeling it would get a bit messy. Everything is just so clean right now. My other reservation is going through smog check. I like to tell the techs that everything is sorta stock & it looks that way when I faux cover up the plenum. Thinking the tape will get them looking around more

Understandable.

 

[Big O]

Spending hundreds of dollars to "upgrade" to a "cold air intake" makes me laugh. There is no cold air in an engine bay.

I'd rather stick with my factory intake which is a combination of ram-air and cold air. I just did some mods to my factory intake which seem to work well.

I ripped out the air dam in front of the intake, filed down the guide vanes, wrapped the intake with heat-reflective tape, did the same to the MAF canister as it also senses intake air temperature and my FX45 is now running better than ever.

$20 spent so far.

Sorry to jack and for crappy pic. here's my intake. Like the tape idea!!! Need to clean engine bay too!!!

 

[Big O]

Luckly mines was on there when I bought it.