Good news for the CAI crowd...

[_-Night-Shade-_]

^ I second that motion

[JWMX3]

are you really producing that much heat that it's melting your plastic ?

just for the record... that was sarcasm, nothing melted in my engine bay .....lol but my intake manifold can cook a mean fried egg

and Igor, i hope youre coming this weekend or something of yours is going to be melted down for scrap aluminum

[RS_OBD'oh_2]

Would aluminium not dissipate heat much better than the plastic pipes? I know the couplers I order are 4 layer reinforced silicone and run damn near 20can. I’m sure they will be fine for a little while but I would not trust a $7 coupler. What about nipples for the lines? A CAI is useless if it does not have the vac/meter lines.

[Inodoro Pereyra]

They have everything. Vac meter adapters, MAF adapters (not in the pics because somebody stole them), etc.
The pieces of pipe you see in the plastic blisters come with a solid aluminum clamp each, so you only need the silicone couplers where you need flexibility.

[umcamara]

Would aluminium not dissipate heat much better than the plastic pipes?

That would depend on where the heat energy is coming from. Plastic has a higher thermal resistance than aluminum. If the intake tubing was aluminum and the intake air was hotter than the atmospheric air surrounding the piping, then heat transfer would be radially outward from the tubing. If it was plastic tubing, there would be less heat transfer from the intake air.

However, if the intake air were cooler than the engine air surrounding the tubing (hence cold air intake), then aluminum tubing would permit radial heat transfer inward to the intake air in the tubing, whereas plastic tubing would permit less.

I'm pretty darn sure that plastic has a higher thermal resistance, could be one reason why factory intakes are rubber/plastic, not aluminum.

[mitmaks]

I think all that stuff is overpriced. I usually check on ebay and I can get most of parts cheaper w/shipping included.

[_-Night-Shade-_]

and Igor, i hope youre coming this weekend or something of yours is going to be melted down for scrap aluminum

LOL Joe! I'm not sure anymore =/ I can no longer take it where I wanted to... I'll do my best.

[umcamara]

LOL Joe! I'm not sure anymore =/ I can no longer take it where I wanted to... I'll do my best.

Did I miss something here?

[_-Night-Shade-_]

Hahah no... Joe and I just decided to have a little conversation, don't mind us