Heat shield for tymar intake?

[2001Stroke]

Anyone made a heat shield for their Tymar intake? I wish I could get the dimensions of the AFE stage II and just make one out of some sheet metal. I guess I could do a mock-up of one with cardboard and then just trim it until it fits and use it as a pattern. Also I want to paint my intercooler and boost tubes. Do I need to use some high heat paint, or just leave them alone?

 

[Strokin_it7.3]

take into consideration when painting, that the air passing through the hot side intercooler pipe can get up to 300*, but i dont know if the actual aluminum gets that hot. you probably have insulation on the hot side pipe. it is a PITA to strip off. however i did, and am going to thermal heatwrap the intercooler pipes, downpipe, and both up pipes, "in time".

no one that i know of has made a shroud for the filter. however, i remember someone saying that they took their AFE kit, removed the filter, and put the filter in.

 

[Strokin_it7.3]

It's a 46637, the part number that you use on www.fleetfilter.com, it is only $18.

 

[Rex-a-FORD]

Anyone made a heat shield for their Tymar intake? I wish I could get the dimensions of the AFE stage II and just make one out of some sheet metal. I guess I could do a mock-up of one with cardboard and then just trim it until it fits and use it as a pattern. Also I want to paint my intercooler and boost tubes. Do I need to use some high heat paint, or just leave them alone?

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[2001Stroke]

That's exactly what I want!

 

[hheynow]

Rex-a-Ford, Great photo link, Thanks. I just did a cardboard mock up and then a rough cut on some sheet metal. Won't the sheet metal act like a heat sink? I may attach some COOL-IT MAT on one side, which I have extra pieces of from a previous use.

 

[Hoss 350]

Anyone made a heat shield for their Tymar intake?

It has been done, but I am not completely sold on the benefits of such an enterprise.

I have seen research results of a guy with thermometers under the hood that found that underhood temps in the area of the air-filter peaked at only 20 degrees more than the ambient temps. When you couple this with the fact that even if you have a 20 degree advantage at intake, you are still going to heat the air up to 350 degrees in the turbo, cool it back down in the intercooler, then run it into the engine, 20 degrees looks pretty inconsequential.

However, it is not going to stop me from making one (LOL!!!), because I am sick and I love to mod my truck. I just wanted to let you guys know it probably wouldn't really accomplish anything besides make you feel better about getting cold air into your filter.

That said, the location of the Tymar would be almost perfect for a hood scoop (right there on the side of the downturn in the hood) and I have always thought that would be really sweet to have a functional hood scoop right over the filter, with a heat shield around the filter to keep the "ram air" effect going.

Good luck on your efforts.

 

[Hoss 350]

Rex-a-Ford, Great photo link, Thanks. I just did a cardboard mock up and then a rough cut on some sheet metal. Won't the sheet metal act like a heat sink? I may attach some COOL-IT MAT on one side, which I have extra pieces of from a previous use.

Cool-it would work fine, IMHO.

My plan was to do what you did, rough it out with cardboard, then cut it out of galvy sheet metal. THen, get some weather seal like they put in the doors of cars and such, and put it over the top of the sheet metal. I was thinking that would work for the tube inlet, too. I hadn't really considered insulating the sheet metal, though, so that is a pretty good idea. something foil-faced would be good because it would deflect radiant heat, in addition to stopping thermal transmission.

 

[kiarasue]

Heat shield

Well theres something I learned from my Cummins friends is that 70 degree intake air makes the best fuel mileage. If it HP you want then get it as cold as possible. The cummins guys put an air intake temp gauge and a adjustable intake flap to regulate the temp by bringing warm air in from the turbo.