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Old Feb 16, 2012 | 01:51 PM
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heat that IC pipes are subjected to?

anyone happen to know?
my car is apart and I am going over some options and was wondering if anyone knew the temps usually found in/on the IC pipes?
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Old Feb 16, 2012 | 07:01 PM
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I assume that the intercooler pipe temperature would change depending on the distance from the engine or turbo, warm or heat-soaked, cold or hot day. Why are you concerned? It would be best to find another, running car and use a infared temperature sensor and take readings in the area you are concerned with. You can find these pocket sized sensors cheap and they come in handy all the time.
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Old Feb 16, 2012 | 08:20 PM
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I have a meter, have no car to check. Thought maybe someone had checked so I would have a range
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Old Feb 16, 2012 | 09:53 PM
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The charge air is in the pipes for such little time that I can't imagine the ambient temperatures around the pipe will really have that much of an effect.

Don't over think it. If you've got a good IC with good ducting, and your LIM/UIM isn't incredibly heat-soaked than you'll be fine.

If your LIM/UIM are hot to the touch then it won't really matter what the IC piping is like, as the last place the air passes is hot...
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Old Feb 17, 2012 | 04:39 AM
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If you are thinking of CF intercooler pipes you just have to use the right resin of course the carbon fiber can take the heat.

You can grab something like McMaster-Carr catalog and start looking at the properties of different epoxies.
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Old Feb 17, 2012 | 08:44 AM
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this is more along the finishing portion of the project, car was already running just changed intake and some pipes and going for a different look
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