Jason thermocouple in middle of air flow.
Thank you folks. Because according to some of you folks, it does zero good so ya'll wouldn't mind if I leave my wrapped plastic tube in place. I'm also going to procure an aluminum flywheel because those in the know say there's minimal value. You all wouldn't care about a header because in the past, over and over people said, no value. And a thinner head gasket may be over the top but a bit more compression is about to join the party. It these items don't help we'll do an honest 10:1.
There's a 1.8 NA and a couple 99's from his past Sunday wondering what happened to their straight line suspensions.
Nuff on this subject, because ya'll say whatever ya'll all say and it don't do nutten anyway.
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I think what people are trying to do is find the real cause of the EXTREME rise in temps from intake to the throttle body. It is highly unlikely that it's heat transfer through the intake tube. The physics just don't support it. If the 1.6 is experiencing this increase in air temps the. The cause should be identified and a real solution proposed. Do any of us care if the tube is wrapped, probably not , will it help you , probably not
Instead of attacking those that are questioning the cause of the temp increase, use them to help identify the problem. Get them to agree to helping reduce intake temps. It would be unfair for a 1.6 to suffer from 20-30 degrees of higher intake temps vs other models.