Ok another 26 pages to ketchup with lala thread.

n3w

OKla, YAB mau flip table liao. And since we are talking about ambient temperature affecting engine performance....

Remember last time I was contemplating insulating the intake hose and airbox? and titanrev already went ahead and wrap the airbox with aluminium wrap?

I've been thinking, while it is true that the intake piping and airbox may soak up heat from the engine bay, but the air going into the engine actually passes through those components very quickly, isn't it? That means, the time a particular volume of outside air spent inside the airbox and the associated pipings are not long enough to cause them to heat up much.

That means, if the air the car sucks in is hot, it will be hot when it enters the TB. If it is cold, it will still be cold. If your open pod is sucking hot air from the engine bay, no amount of insulation on the piping can cool it down. So it is more important to suck in cold air in the first place, than to try to keep it from heating up enroute to the TB.

I know gunker has observed the temperature changes before and after the aluminium wrap mod, so I might be missing something.

Thoughts?

If we're talking about ambient temperature affecting the engine itself, remember during normal driving the engine temperature is regulated at 80c-90c via water cooling, this is the most optimum operating temperature for the engine.

Therefore,ambient temperature will have little to no effect on the engine itself.

Engine oil temperature is different and is indicative of the engine's internal temperature, nothing to do with ambient temperature.

The gaga's intake is designed to suck in whatever air in front of it. It is definitely not a cold air intake.

But then, does the insulation/wrap cool the air down in the intake funnel/airbox?

Like I was asking, isn't the air passing the intake system too fast to be affected by the temperature of the materials?

There is also the question of where is the ambient temp sensor located.

Yep, I think this would be much more effective than insulating the intake system.

This post has been edited by dares: Dec 23 2014, 11:16 PM

Nothing to do with snowflake shape la

An extruded honeycomb shape (hexagon arrays) creates most surface area per volume per amount of material used, compared to square, triangular or circular arrays.

Bees create honeycomb shape nests because this way they can fit most amount of chambers in a limited space with minimum amount of wax.

In short, it is simply a more efficient shape if the target is maximum contact surface area with minimum restriction.

So to sum it up, insulating the intake system has very little effect

This post has been edited by dares: Dec 24 2014, 01:37 AM

fiksed

I think what's more shocking is that his car got CVT

This post has been edited by dares: Dec 24 2014, 12:25 PM

Later Peninsular splitted into two

Jom mana?

Nanti go inspek all the gagas parked there, then cabut again

Yesterday after you left we naik rollercoaster esola gi Klang makan BKT

This post has been edited by dares: Dec 27 2014, 10:54 AM

So did you poison your gf with cars

Or did she forbid you from meeting with us again after seeing our antics yesterday?

Because.....read below

This post has been edited by dares: Dec 27 2014, 05:27 PM

Sorry to hear that bro. Yesterday I almost spin when my car fishtailed on a wet corner, damn weather.

Ayam quite poisoned with the rollercoaster esola....

This post has been edited by dares: Dec 28 2014, 07:35 PM

Don't feel underpowered to me as a passenger pun

Next TT I bai u teh o ais to compensate your petrol marni

This post has been edited by dares: Dec 28 2014, 08:54 PM

mod kolos

Dey boss diorang kata AmAssurance is bought by AIG....betui ke?

u dowan play his buntut....you want him to play your buntut?

Where is this?

Got a cute kenari also



Bila mau?