Heat Barrier on Mountune Airbox?

[anticon]

So, I had this idea a while ago and I am finally about ready to try it. I was thinking I would wrap my airbox with aluminized heat barrier to keep the air cooler in my mountune airbox and insulated from heat in the engine compartment. My thinking stems from the ST200 airbox being plastic and the mountune being metal. It seems the ST200 plastic would help insulate better. My only worry is maybe it will kind of heat soak. Any one have any thoughts or tried this before?

 

[Mikey456]

Have you thought about the gold tape? I think another member wrapped his intake hose with gold tape. I don’t know if that’s cost prohibitive though with the amount of surface area you are using.

 

[Jabbit]

I think you'd be better off using some sort of paint, but I think either option will provide no measurable difference. I'm all for innovation though so measure temps before and after!

 

[CarGuy]

ST200 intake is all plastic, basically a Ford version of the Mountune intake from the European Fiesta ST200. Whoosh sells them. Then you can just sell your current Mountune. Problem solved.

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[dhminer]

It certainly can’t hurt anything. I’ve debated doing the same because why not? More bang for your buck though is insulating the crossover pipe as it’s directly over the hot ass exhaust manifold and turbo.

 

[anticon]

Have you thought about the gold tape? I think another member wrapped his intake hose with gold tape. I don’t know if that’s cost prohibitive though with the amount of surface area you are using.

Sounds to fancy for my budget build.

 

[anticon]

It certainly can’t hurt anything. I’ve debated doing the same because why not? More bang for your buck though is insulating the crossover pipe as it’s directly over the hot ass exhaust manifold and turbo.

That's not a bad idea, I thought that was what the heatshield were for.

 

[dhminer]

That's not a bad idea, I thought that was what the heatshield were for.

They are absolutely for that. No idea how much help they are but I don’t have them on lol

 

[green_henry]

A guy at the track used this on his STi and claimed that parts that were previously too hot to touch were a lot cooler afterwards: https://www.summitracing.com/parts/dei-010396