So I've been looking into ways to lower underhood temps for people with aftermarket tube manifolds and it seems the only options are ceramic coatings, wrapping, and MAP's firewall heat shield. Are there any fabricators or any interest from others to see a heat shield made for tube mani's? There seems to be all sorts of covers for the stock manifolds so where are they for the tubes? Is it that w/ the tube mani's everybody wants to show them off? I mean I LOVE the way my coated MAP one looks but not the heat it's putting out getting red hot. Any ideas or anybody willing to fabricate one? I'd love to give it a shot just don't have the "Napa Know-how" if ya know what I mean.

 

nobody huh? Anybody have a pic of the AMS turbo kits installed? Curious as to what their heatshield looks like...

 

It seems like all the places in my neck of the woods only do custom stuff for the oil patch because that's where the money is and the fact they stay uber busy. If you can find a place when they happen to be slow, welding shops/machine shops etc.. i'm sure they'd be happy to create something for you.


I've been trying to find something that could create a negitive pressure with in the enginebay that would suck out the heat from under the car while in motion. the top air scoop on the X already does this alittle. by pushing air in to the top of the engine bay and directs with the stock heat sheilds cooler air down past the manifold. but there should also be a way with taking a skid plate and scooping the air from under to create a negitive pressure zone. which then will suck more air in through the top and out the bottom. pretty much would take $$ and time on a wind tunnel to figure out. if your car is at idle however... burn baby burn! not sure what to say about that situation.

 

Its like a giant turbo blanket

 

You could go to a cad shop. I swain coated my manifold and that keeps it cool.

 

swain coat? What's that and whats diff between that and ceramic coating?

 

toxifab did it for me look him up.