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Tony de Wonderful

By Tony de Wonderful,
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Yes I know and it means a residence time in the pipe (I insulated) of only ~0.024 seconds.

What is the residence time in the intercooler though? Must be about the same?

Yes the pipe is not designed to exchange heat like an intercooler but that does not mean the air is not being heated back up measurably.

Anyway this is all academic until I install my temp gauge.

Volume of air VS surface area of the coldside piping isn't enough to make a noticable difference.

An intercoolder is designed to maximise surface area in contact with the volume of air.

If I apply this exact same method to my aircon pipes in my engine bay, will my aircon be 10deg colder?

No...

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If you increased the surface area inside the insulated pipe then yes it may make a difference. As it is now it will not. At idle it may make a little difference to the intake temp, but once moving any gains would be very small.

Nothing wrong with tinkering but.

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Try your local industrial lagging service they use some interesting materials like this

including a metallic heat reflective duct tape kinda stuff,

i pinched as many rolls as I could get my hands on :)from various employers

believe aircon guys use similar stuff, would be ideal to seal the overlap area

stainless cable ties as mentioned would be the go local sparky supply place should have em

most gas plants seem to spend a fortune on lagging pipes to control temperatures of compressed gas low

sound familiar????

interested to see if you get any measurable results reckon just slowing the heat soak alone is a win

combined with a decent CAI cant see why you wouldnt get some results

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