NASA ghetto heat buster intake

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NASA ghetto heat buster intake

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07-09-2010, 02:06 PM

So with the latest heat wave there's a lot of talk about underhood temps and intake air temps ... and that is especially true if you have a Jackson Raicing supercharger as I found out the hard way a week ago on the dyno.

So, in addition to fixing the water meth injection system, I decided to go NASA on my stock SVT intake and ghetto'd up an insulation package using a combination of dynamat x-treme and aluminum foil bubble insulation. The butt dyno says it really works.

Went from this ...

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to this ... (you can see the new water meth injector location on the intake tube)

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... and here's the water meth pump and tank in the spare wheel well.

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