plaf713

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I have heard that you can pick up a few ponies by spraying the bottom of your intake white with spray paint or whatever. I have heard that the white paint reflects heat coming from the bottom end, has anyone tried doing this?dont flame me, its just a question.

GeArBaNgEr56

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I've heard of that too, who knows.

Brads LS1 02Z

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i think i herd that on howerpower tv a while back... but seems like

Bad Blue WS6

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i have also heard that,,no idea if its true,,,my guess would be that it would make a small difference on a metal intake,,,,

CranMaro99

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I bet no one would even see a 1/4 improvement if this was done.

xBROKEx

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wont matter with a composite intake, you get ambient temp almost imediatly upon WOT, its an old muscle car trick

BLACK2001SS

yeah its has to be lead based paint though you get like 20 more hp.

ls1leadfoot

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it was a very old school trick......will not be worth the hassle on a composite intake

thats my advice

billybadd

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I agree on that.

redtail2426

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you would be 1000 times better off puting a thin piece of foam insulation or something between the intake and valley cover.

Shawn @ VA Speed

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it never worked on the alum intakes,old wives tale

blue98Z

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^^Just what I was thinking. My dad and his friends use to tell me that growing up, but never noticed any difference.

SladeX

Even if you did paint it or insulate it with some space age thermal ceramic paint, how would you deal with the heat coming off the heads that are in contact at the intake runners? How about the heat kept in by the hood being reflected back down at the intake from the top?

Keep in mind composite doesn't really "retain" heat like a metal does, but it's seriously not going to do anything for the intake.

Asmodeus

Wouldn't it be too dark under the intake for the heat to know what color it was?

ProductionS14

LOLOLOLOLOL

redtail2426

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True.Black objects absorb light much better then white objects,not infrared heat.Which means if you painted it white it would be the exact same temp as if it was black.def old wives tale.

lemons12

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lmao.. funny ****..

Red99C5

If you are going to paint it, then get some thermal-barrier cremaic paint. You will have to paint the bottom of the intake and the face of the flanges, and I would even paint the intake bolts shoulders (not the threads). I would also paint the valley cover.
But IMO, I don't think it will do much (if anything) unless you are running an aluminum intake.

rhd

white reflects all varients of color...not heat. white paint would do nothing different than orange, purple, or green

digitalsolo

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It reflects all variants of LIGHT, not color. Infrared light (heat) still counts on that list.

That said, the effects are going to be miniscule at best (at best being an old iron intake SBC with no valley cover), and non-existant on LSX motors.

FWIW oil/heat shedding thermal coatings have shown improvements on older SBC motors, as they keep hot oil off the intake (and back down to the pan where it belongs). Still very, very small, and utterly irrelevant to our composite intakes w/ valley covers.