Originally Posted by lovemysan

I worked on improving the HAI today. I have no testing yet. I'll get some running temp results later today. Here are the pics. The material is aluminum vinyl siding coil. Its coated with a mylar armor coat on the finished side. Hope it doesn't go up in flames.

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I had 3 months running the old setup and hope this improves my winter mileage. I seriously doubt I could run this in temps above 70 but will see.

Originally Posted by red91sit

I'd be worried about that vinyl :O. I've seen my exhaust manifold glow red hot before. I like your idea though, one of hte big 3 used this setup way back when on a "highway" car or something like that, they got extremely hot intake air, i'm not sure exactly why they wanted it, but they got it. I was thinking something like this for a heater on my car, suck air from around the exhaust manifolds, instant 1,000 heater, thats' gottta work better then 200 degree water. Sure if i get a leak I'd quickly die from carbon monoxide poisoning, but hey, thats' a chance i'm willing to take for a nice warm car haha.

Originally Posted by cfg83

lovemysan -



When I was reading about the WAI/HAI, I never noticed a restriction on time of year. Why wouldn't it work in the summer? I can't find this restriction in the the other threads I read about. Is it a melting parts issue :confused: ?

CarloSW2 (in already warmish SoCal air)