Originally posted by CivicSiRacer
Why did you paint your intake tube black? It will absorb more heat and that's not where you want heat to go.
the chrome intake was 900 times hotter than the black.
the black is ceramic based and when I was running it 1/4 mile it would cool off completely in between runs. The chrome would never cool at all, and I could never get it cool enough to even touch it.