tjbartjr

Does anybody make them for the tC? I've heard it gets pretty hot under the hood, so I think they'd be a worthwhile investment.

kocho333

the intake manifold dont get hot its thats wat ur worried about, full nite of racing in 80Deg. weather, put my hand back there and it was nice a cool

tjbartjr

Oh I'm not worried, I just want to lower intake temps as much as possible.

reagulator

what are these spacers you are talking about. I have a injen CAI and when im in motion the difference in outside temp and intake temp is almost always a two degree difference. This info is based on my scanguage and the outside temp guage on the tC. I dont really know how accurate that thing is so iono. Lets say that outside temp is 74 degrees. My intake temp will be 72 degrees if i have been cruising for a while. Obviously intake temperature will never be less then the outside temperature, so in a best case scenario you will only gain 2 degrees cooler temp. Unless you are stationary for a while, such as a long line for in-n-out, i have had intake temps reach as high as 113 degrees in 70 degree weather.

raamaudio

You are not going to gain much if anything since we have a plastic maniflold that does not tend to heat soak in the first place. I have installed them on cars with an aluminum manifold and had great results of course, just do not think it would do much good on our plastic ones.

I ran 12PSI boost on my Matrix and some days made alot of back to back autocross runs and it never got very warm to the touch at all.

Rick