EfiniX
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In this post: Anecdotal support for efficacious mitigation of issues related to heat-soak.
Symptoms include:
Loss of performance when warm
Loss of controlled idle when warm
General poopiness when warm
I had this:
Beautiful to be sure, but there's clearly going to be a heat-soak potential with the intercooler piping running right over the top of that sexy FP racing manifold. Now ever since I had my ETS FMIC kit installed, I was plainly aware of a loss of overall power when negotiating stop-and-go traffic. So long as I was moving, things were better, but once I would sit at a few lights, there was a noticeable loss of power. Not much, but come on; we all notice even a little bit, right? It's what keeps us coming back.
Anyway, I got the new motor and such (see my build thread), and in the process, put in this beautiful FP manifold. The performance increases with the new motor were quite nice, but the heat-soak power loss was more noticeable.
So I wrapped it up.
After wrapping the exhaust in titanium heat shielding, and wrapping the IC piping in Thermo-whatever tape, the difference was quite impressive.
My car doesn't stall when coasting to a stop anymore. Like ever. I'm not calling heat-soak mitigation a panacea of idle problems, but for me, after going through everything else with EHMotorsports (and even replacing my TPS), this is what did it. Now it wasn't happening every time I would coast to a stop. Maybe 15% of the time. But now, 4 months on... not once.
And performance dips during stop-and-go are much, much better. That's to be expected, sure, but it was tangible.
So yeah, pretty neat.
Symptoms include:
Loss of performance when warm
Loss of controlled idle when warm
General poopiness when warm
I had this:
Beautiful to be sure, but there's clearly going to be a heat-soak potential with the intercooler piping running right over the top of that sexy FP racing manifold. Now ever since I had my ETS FMIC kit installed, I was plainly aware of a loss of overall power when negotiating stop-and-go traffic. So long as I was moving, things were better, but once I would sit at a few lights, there was a noticeable loss of power. Not much, but come on; we all notice even a little bit, right? It's what keeps us coming back.
Anyway, I got the new motor and such (see my build thread), and in the process, put in this beautiful FP manifold. The performance increases with the new motor were quite nice, but the heat-soak power loss was more noticeable.
So I wrapped it up.
After wrapping the exhaust in titanium heat shielding, and wrapping the IC piping in Thermo-whatever tape, the difference was quite impressive.
My car doesn't stall when coasting to a stop anymore. Like ever. I'm not calling heat-soak mitigation a panacea of idle problems, but for me, after going through everything else with EHMotorsports (and even replacing my TPS), this is what did it. Now it wasn't happening every time I would coast to a stop. Maybe 15% of the time. But now, 4 months on... not once.
And performance dips during stop-and-go are much, much better. That's to be expected, sure, but it was tangible.
So yeah, pretty neat.