That would probably work too. My intake tube material is said to be good at insulating the intake air from the heat, but the sensor plastic more readily absorbs it, so yea, if you just put a heat blocking foil around it you'd likely accomplish the same thing.
Thanks for the video but I don’t buy into it. Sounds like a good way to have issues that will be hard to diagnose. The goal of the IAT is to read the actual air temp, but the place where you are mounting it isn’t really seeing the air as warm as it will be when entering the engine as it will get warmed up by the hot airbox or tubing on its way. I wonder what kind of evidence/data back the benefits of this relocation… my advice: keep your money for maintenance
As I understand what their selling point is: The plastic that makes up the sensor and intake may heat up at idle since there is very little airflow, and then affects the sensor reading despite cooler air flowing by the sensor, so by relocating it farther away from heat sources you essentially take a reading of the same air without the heat soak affecting the sensor. You don't gain hp, but rather maintain peak hp at any given rpm due to the sensor not being manipulated by heat soak. My intake tube material is said to be pretty good at insulating the intake air from engine heat, but the sensor plastic absorbs it much more readily. Supposedly, people have noticed a difference.
Use heat resistance foil and make heat shield between engine and your intake ,and z
you can put smal chunk on your sensor also
That would probably work too. My intake tube material is said to be good at insulating the intake air from the heat, but the sensor plastic more readily absorbs it, so yea, if you just put a heat blocking foil around it you'd likely accomplish the same thing.
good work
Thanks for the video but I don’t buy into it. Sounds like a good way to have issues that will be hard to diagnose. The goal of the IAT is to read the actual air temp, but the place where you are mounting it isn’t really seeing the air as warm as it will be when entering the engine as it will get warmed up by the hot airbox or tubing on its way. I wonder what kind of evidence/data back the benefits of this relocation… my advice: keep your money for maintenance
As I understand what their selling point is: The plastic that makes up the sensor and intake may heat up at idle since there is very little airflow, and then affects the sensor reading despite cooler air flowing by the sensor, so by relocating it farther away from heat sources you essentially take a reading of the same air without the heat soak affecting the sensor. You don't gain hp, but rather maintain peak hp at any given rpm due to the sensor not being manipulated by heat soak. My intake tube material is said to be pretty good at insulating the intake air from engine heat, but the sensor plastic absorbs it much more readily. Supposedly, people have noticed a difference.
Do you need tune afterwards?
It doesn't say you do. It's more of just piggy backing a signal to relocate a sensor.