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Just a quick question and I'm not being a smart ass. This has always confused me. Turbo blankets keep heat in, Downpipe blankets keep heat in. Why would you put a blanket on the inlet pipe? Genuinely curious. PRL found a few of their Coated Titanium inlet pipe's last week and I ordered one. It will be here today. I've looked at the inlet blanket since I got my R but still don't fully understand why you want it. Thanks in advanceI still have it's around 40 to ship. I also have a new redesigned PTP Intake blanket for sale V2. 20 bucks off of retail price.
Awesome thanks for the reply. That was my exact thoughts. It may possibly keep the temp readings more stable for a short period of time but once it really heats up its going to stay hotter longer. I'm hoping the coating on the PRL helps a little more with heat soak. I only bought that option since the regular one's are out of stock everywhere and I happened to check the site the day they added 5 coated ones they had found in the back of the warehouse. They were sold out the next morning again. I'm definitely not wrapping it but I'm going to use the gold reflective tape as well. As long as I can make it look somewhat presentable lolFrom what I've read a couple times on the forum, you generally don't want to wrap the pipe. Especially the titanium ones, cant speak to OEM. The titaniums job is to dissipate the heat as quickly as possible and wrapping in a blanket prevents that. It looks like it could also keep heat in once things start to heat up under the hood, which again, is bad for an inlet where you want the coolest air possible. IMO, don't wrap inlets, wrap the rest.
I personally wrapped a portion of mine in heat reflective tape, which made more sense in my head. Reflect the heat away, don't trap it in.
Awesome that's exactly what my plan is. I've experimented with that tape enough to know it does work. It's not a magic fix but it definitely helpsI had the coated one from them and still decided to wrap it. It's a fairly thin coat and had some spots that weren't completely covered, so decided to just heat tape it.