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quote:Originally posted by quicksilverdon
While not disputing the preceding posts, I would think the intake would be a good candidate so as not to pick up engine bay heat to intake air.
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The reason that they coat exhaust manifolds is to keep the heat in. Velocity is lost as the exhaust charge cools. A side benefit to this is that less heat is exhchanged into the engine bay. Since a byproduct of compressing air is heat generation, I think it would make sense that the same applies to this. The downside of course is that we want a cooler charge (via the intercooler) to enter the intake so it would seem to conflict with the retainded heat theory of the ceramic coating. I don't know if you could just do the exhuast side of the turbo and achieve any worthwhile benefit, espeically given the very low potential return vs the cost and hours of this job. If you were an all-out racer and wanted to experiment, it might be interesting. But for the weekend warrior I wouldn't waste my time/money.
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