AEM intake?!!
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AEM intake?!!
Has anyone had any experience with this intake. Didn't find much of anything under the search button. Looks really nice, and love the fact it will match the Nebula Gray.
http://www.aemintakes.com/mobile/pro...x?prod=21-759C
http://www.aemintakes.com/mobile/pro...x?prod=21-759C
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If you don't want the aluminum tube to pick up under-hood heat, it should be white or chrome instead of any dark color.
I suspect that coating the interior would also help, but the coating thickness would reduce flow slightly, plus how to insure a perfectly smooth surface?
The "cold" part works best if you make sure that the box around the filter is tight to the fender, hood etc. using adhesive foam strips etc. Doesn't have to be air-tight, just no gaps.
I suspect that coating the interior would also help, but the coating thickness would reduce flow slightly, plus how to insure a perfectly smooth surface?
The "cold" part works best if you make sure that the box around the filter is tight to the fender, hood etc. using adhesive foam strips etc. Doesn't have to be air-tight, just no gaps.
https://www.reference.com/science/co...3ca519b983f629
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that's not a consideration under a hood and out of the light.
http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/******.php?key=1464
http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/******.php?key=1464
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Silver is best.
http://littleshop.physics.colostate....AndCooling.pdf
http://littleshop.physics.colostate....AndCooling.pdf
"But silvery metals don’t work like this. They reflect visible light and they reflect infrared too. They don’t absorb it—and, more importantly, they don’t emit it! So, in this experiment, the two cylinders will cool at different rates. The bare aluminum cylinder radiates less and cools rapidly; the white cylinder (and the color doesn’t matter—it could be any color at all!) will radiate more and so it will cool off more quickly."
I installed this intake a couple weeks ago. I like it a lot. This is the first intake I put on a car that I actually noticed a sound difference right away. Power isn't noticeable but it's not supposed to be. As for the install, I needed to add an extra washer to the bolt that goes into the engine to make the fitment more snug and not have a resulting rattling. Reaching this bolt wasn't very easy but not impossible. There also wasn't much room to install the filter, but was able to nudge it into place.
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Interesting article, but radiant heat has the same transmissive and absorbent properties as visible light. Julius Mackerle did A-B-C comparison tests on black anodized vs. as-cast vs. polished surfaces inside an aluminum oil pan 60 years ago, the difference was way over 100% in both directions.
According to your theory there is no value for coating turbo headers...
According to your theory there is no value for coating turbo headers...
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