Heat Resistant Gasket??

[Z U L8R]

o i c. this is like steroids for a cold air intake, ic ic. i can understand a heat sheild/gasket in between the head and the intake manifold sheilding heat from the engine kind of like a heat shield on a turbo but the other stuff honestly...i think it's propaganda.

i think it's a gimick to get you to spend your money. installing your supercharger your going to have to be tuned anyways, tuning is what's going to dictate your computer's quantity of fuel injected. there are cars with intake air temp sensors but they're usually on the airbox or snorkel not in the plenum, thus plenum temperature would be a moot point in the computer's reading of one of those to dictate fuel delivery. the computer however does get information from your coolant temperature sensor which helps dictate richer in cold conditions etc. and having colder air ingested will result in more oxygen molecules to fuel, thus leaner, thus more powerful but a magical gasket that will make your car gain 10 horses, unless it's inbetween the head and the block, i'm gonna be a little skeptical.

basically if the gaskets need to be replaced anyways since you're taking it apart, IF those gaskets are similarly priced then give em a shot what can it hurt, if they're expensive...then you're smaller wallet is compensating for a bigger hope and expectation, a false sense of security that you're paying extra for. i can say though...my old old old old sr20 car beat a lot of cars i shouldn't have beaten and i wasn't running any thermostat, but those winter nights were cold as shit and changing plugs every winter month got to be costly and annoying.

good luck with your car though, i look forward to seeing some pics when it's done

[scttydb411]

i think it's a gimick to get you to spend your money. installing your supercharger your going to have to be tuned anyways, tuning is what's going to dictate your computer's quantity of fuel injected. there are cars with intake air temp sensors but they're usually on the airbox or snorkel not in the plenum, thus plenum temperature would be a moot point in the computer's reading of one of those to dictate fuel delivery. the computer however does get information from your coolant temperature sensor which helps dictate richer in cold conditions etc. and having colder air ingested will result in more oxygen molecules to fuel, thus leaner, thus more powerful but a magical gasket that will make your car gain 10 horses, unless it's inbetween the head and the block, i'm gonna be a little skeptical.

the iat is actuall mounted on the intake manifold on all b-series and on all jrsc manifolds. the charger is going to heat up the intake charge and if you can keep from adding additional heat through transfer of the block to the manifold you will be better off.

tuning does dictate the amount of fuel delivered, but there are also enrichments based on engine coolant temps as well as intake air temps.

they are pricey, but also reuseable as long as you don't damage/bend it. surely anything a company puts out as marketing on a product is designed to do just that...market it for what it is and what it can do for you. they may or may not exaggerate to sell, but that's why they try and give some sort of real world data to help explain what it can do.

you do notice your car making more power when it's cooler outside as opposed to the dead of summer. basically this is the same premise by trying to drop intake temps to make a little more power.