My contribution to the HMT crew.

Personally I'm probably in a similar state as the majority of you guys; a speed junky DIYer penny pinching low baller (full time college student).. so instead of forking out 60-100 on a gauge to check my coolant temps, I went to walmart and bought a thermometer for deep frying for $3, stuck it in my radiator and ran the car at full temp. The consistent number I received was 200 degrees farenheit which is the maximum suggested running temp for my car.

I've also noticed my intake manifold heats up tremendously during these temps, so I'm trying to come up with some type of heat blocking material to put between 2 intake manifold gaskets (hondata sells one for $50). I was even thinking I could use a very thin sheet of styrofoam since it's a great heat insulator

 

Search for garolite, I believe most use g-10

 

haha love the ghetto gauge lol only on hmt. but styrofoam leaks air pretty bad, try a good peice of wood. ive seen plenty of hotrod guys make spacers with woods, like a nice 1 1/2 inch this peice should do the trick. but i dont know on a honda cuz there isnt much clearance between intake manifold and firewall, could be some sort of territorial dispute there, firewall normally wins.

 

Not against a 5 lb. sledge hammer it won't.

:P

You are still going to get some pretty good heat transfer to the intake seeing as how there is coolant running through part of it.

 

last summer at my work they had tons of garolite that we machined...---- sucks to cut and smell-dont remember what grade though- some of the better employees would forget to add coolent and the machine would run out causing the tools to heat up and just melt the hell out the garolite-this usually happens to all types of plastic/epoxy crap but I dont know how well it would work for an intake manifold gasket because of the high heat. So whose running the garolite gasket out there? really couldnt find any thing about it after 20 min of searching the web-any way I be making one for my b20vtec delsol soon and post up the results

 

i got a digital indoor/outdoor temp guage for my air intake temp

see

 

that is good stuff ^^^

back in my high school days i built a spacer out of what the local industrial plastics place called phenolic. they gave me a 1" chunk and i went to work with a band saw and a hole saw! Sure cleaned up throttle response on the mustang and the carb stayed nice and cool. Still on there to this day. It looks like wood fiber dipped in resin.