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« on: May 12, 2009, 02:30:42 PM »
One of my good friends owns a 99 passat and is part of audizine and passat world... and they rant and rave about using heatshields all over their engine bay

i know they are running turbos hence the engine bay temp is pretty high... but would we benefit at all by using one?

he has a ton of left over materials that he used to construct his and i thought about making one
here is a photo of where i might try to make one... i notice my fujita CAI pipe as well as OBX oil catch can gets DAMN DAMN hot while driving....

you think the benefits are worth the troubles?

thanks for the input

photo of where i would make one
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« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2009, 02:56:29 PM »
This is just my opinion, but it's not worth the effort for a n/a motor with a couple of bolt ons.  Maybe if you were running a highly modified motor with a turbo or something, then I'd say it may be worth it.  I wouldn't waste my time on something like that though.
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« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2009, 03:08:30 PM »
thanks for the input... yeah with the turbo on the VW i know his engine temp is alot higher than mine... and just blocking off the CAI side of the engine bay would only result in a minimal temp change.
I tried to attach the photo of his heat shield but photobucket is being a BITCH...
his looks good and helps his situation out tremendously....
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« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2009, 03:41:19 PM »
Heat shielding is already available.  I have seen it before with certain intake kits that section off an SRI from the rest of the engine bay.  It does help out.  It will be slightly effective while driving, and it would be more effective if you make a duct for fresh cold air to get to the filter without coming through the body first.  Duct work makes it easier to get cooler air straight to the intake.
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« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2009, 05:19:02 PM »
I know k.huston's SRI has a heat shield.  I think that ducting would be more effective.  I guess I should get to work on that.
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« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2009, 07:02:31 PM »
yeah you got me thinking of getting more air safely into the engine bay... obviously resisting against any type of water entry
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« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2009, 10:37:06 AM »
Two of buddies have pretty high horse cars and they just wrapped their intercoolers pipes in exhaust wrap and helps out alot so Im sure it would help out a little bit if you wrapped your CAI
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« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2009, 10:41:34 AM »
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yeah you got me thinking of getting more air safely into the engine bay... obviously resisting against any type of water entry

Maybe a little duct work into the bumper??
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« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2009, 02:09:21 PM »
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yeah you got me thinking of getting more air safely into the engine bay... obviously resisting against any type of water entry

Maybe a little duct work into the bumper??

if you don't have fogs, you can mod one of those fog openings as a entry duct for cool air...would be pretty stealth as well
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« Reply #9 on: May 13, 2009, 04:20:21 PM »
yeah i was looking at it in more detail last night
i have the 03-04 sedan bumper so i dont have the 2 openings for the fogs... just the one middle big opening

i could try to run some 4" or 6" vent pipe from the bumper opening up into the engine bay just to get a little more flow
gonna see what parts my buddy has laying around
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