Shielding to prevent heat soak
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Shielding to prevent heat soak
My IAT sensor is heat soaking pretty badly and am in need of shielding for it (because I can't really move it rite now). Has anybody done this before? If so could you post what you did and how effective it was?
I am going to try a few things but would like to see what (if anything) others have done. Thanks!
I am going to try a few things but would like to see what (if anything) others have done. Thanks!
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So this is how my setup was (you can see the iat on the coldside piping).
I wrapped the iat with some heat reflecting tape, made a sheet metal shield to protect it from the radiated heat from the radiator, and put a strip of turbo blanket (silver side facing the radiator) on the bottom of the coldside intercooler piping and achieved excellent results. After some long stop and go drives and some pulls on the dyno I have decided I have temporarily fixed my heat soak issue.
Over the winter I plan on installing a bung in the side of the intercooler for next years iat sensor location.
I wrapped the iat with some heat reflecting tape, made a sheet metal shield to protect it from the radiated heat from the radiator, and put a strip of turbo blanket (silver side facing the radiator) on the bottom of the coldside intercooler piping and achieved excellent results. After some long stop and go drives and some pulls on the dyno I have decided I have temporarily fixed my heat soak issue.
Over the winter I plan on installing a bung in the side of the intercooler for next years iat sensor location.
Last edited by astroboy; 10-31-2010 at 04:38 PM.
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And if you put the AIT in front of the radiator, right in the air stream, you will get cooling effects on your sensor. It is nearly impossible to properly thermally isolate a thermocouple in a relatively hot or cold engine bay. Just try to prevent massive heat soak and prevent large cooling and tune accordingly.
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