Got my K&N Typhoon Carbon Box Intake today. After learning that the so-called carbon box is just a metal box with a carbon fiber cover, I had the heat barrier wrap ready to go. On with the pix...

Parts...

Carbon Fiber Cover

Filter & Metal Box

Thermo Tec


Black High Heat Coating


Installed...



After the intake, the car sounds much sweeter. For some reason, at 5th gear it sounds the loudest. This intake does comes with the Carb legal sticker(can be seen on the carbon cover), so thats kool. Power gain? I couldnt say cuz Im still keeping it under 4k RPM...Hopefully I will hit 1200 clock soon...

 

Looks very clean.

 

Wow, you went all out on the carbon fiber. Nice look . While you're at it, you should've wrapped the piping as well. That's metal too..

 

Exactly what I was thinking. After I got home today, I popped the hood to see if the heat wrap is doing its work...it is, its not even close to warm. But when I touched the piping....OUCH! HOT! HOT! HOT!...but I have no more wrappings left, will sure wrap them when I get more wrappings.

 

are you going to dyno....would be nice to see what kinda gain you get out of that typhoon...which looks nice btw....out

 

carbon fiber galore, nice!

 

You know, this is the first heat wrap post I've seen on this board. I'm actually planning on doing the same thing this week with the shield on my JWT pop charger I just picked up. I plan on wrapping the stock intake pipe as well.

I'm going to use our shop pyrometer to take temp. readings on the sheild and pipe both before and after doing the heat shield wrap. I'm using some stuff from Cool Ride Products that I saw in European Car Mag. a while back. They used it with a great deal of success on their project Turbo M3. Obviously, I'm not expecting anything great in the way of gains, but I figure cooling the intake temps down isn't going to hurt...particularly this summer on the track.

I'll post the temps and pics, etc. when I'm done.

Your install looks nice.

 

How's the quality of the CF cover? It looks nice, but I'll be honest, your engine cover looks nicer.

 

Yeah huh, donno why

Thanks. The quality is not bad, but its very very thin...

 

Very nice job!

 

Someone else did this to their CAI and saw the intake temps go down 20deg from the ODBII info.

 

I ordered the stuff for my Injen top tube, I'm just waiting for a few more parts to come in before I dedicate a day to installing everything.

I can only hope that I get 20 degrees difference. That might just be enough to start making a little power.

 

That sounds like a good deal and all but the air is in the intake for such a short period of time that the heating affect it could cause is so minimal. I am an electronics guy so one of you physics or chemistry majors whip out the formula.

This is the first site i came across online. http://www.kostic.niu.edu/sp-heat_air.html

 

Hi,

Are you able to provide the full kit's part number?

Thanks!
Tristan

 

You could even get the chrome stripped and get in ceramic coated. It would still look nice and do the job.

 

Id say you can do that to mine but mine is crushed...

nice work!

 

Great job insulating the heat shield.

I insulated the air duct first because the highest underhood temperatures were underneath the air duct near the throttle body. I plan to insulate the MAF sensor next and finally the air case since it's the coolest point in the air intake system. The adhesive backed insulation will make the job a lot easier. Where did you get it?


DaveO

 

Got mine at Summit Racing.

 

A little late on this thread, but I have a typhoon sitting in my room and I'm going to order the thermo-tec lace up sleeve for the pipe and get some of the tape for the metal air box.

My question was about the "high heat coating" it seems like it is counter productive to put a black (heat absorbing) coating on the reflective thermo-tec tape...seems like it would be better to leave it shiny. thoughts?

 

Completed insulating the air duct, flex section and MAF sensor. Also insulated the hottest part the heat shield with left over insulation. Used metal tape to hold it all together. Still need to order the adhesive backed insulation.


DaveO