Ok i been sittin in my room thinking "aluminum is a reflective material" "hot air is bad for engine" "cold air is good" basically i figured that if i surround my CAI with aluminum it will lower the temperature even more resulting in more HP!! is this true or am i just out of my mind?

 

Aluminum will still conduct heat but not as much as steel.

I think most CAI's use a thermoplastic or aluminum.

It'll look dumb and probably won't be too noticeable.

 

just use thermal wrap.

 

plenty of people use heat shields around the air filter, but not the whole intake. i dunno, you could try it, but i doubt you're going to notice anything

 

:werd:

 

It would not make enough difference for you to notice if you had a reflective material on your CAI. Now, if you could figure out a way to refrigerate the incoming air and keep it that way going into the engine, then you'd have a decent hp gain.

IMO, the air spends so little time in the intake anyway, that the temp. of the incoming air is more critical.

 

n2o.. what do i win?:yay:

 

you win a chance to design such a system and present it to us!! could make u rich....

 

 

:doh: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question259.htm

somebody beat me to it. how dare they steal my idea before i was even born:chuckles: