My CAI gets pretty dern hot. Not "overheating" hot, but yeah, hot to the touch indeed!

 

try touching your headers after driving for 5 minutes!


it's not a problem. If you're worried about it then get them coated to resist heat transfer and keep heat out. They won't be too much colder to the touch but the air inside will be.

Or wait for iceman.

 

You guys have something wrong, the only reason your cai should get hot is if you shut the car off and let it sit for awhile before popping the hood and checking it out.
if you pop the hood immediately after driving and jump out of your seat to get to that CAI it should be maybe warm to the touch if its a hot day, but otherwise no..it shouldn't heat up (UNLESS you let it idle or sit for awhile)

 

^^^
Doubt everyone's gonna leap out of their seats after they shut the car off just to touch that CAI under the hood. tongue.gif You're right though, Zoned.

 

You want to see thermodynaimics in action... after you are done going somewhere (longer drive than 15 minutes) get out of your car and feel around the sheet metal on the nose. Do not pop the hood...

Generally the bumper and hood will be slightly warm to the touch (especially the hood) but right behind the turnsignals on the fender will be VERY warm (At least on the RD1)

Just one of those odd things I discovered. I can only assume that the headlights are pulling warm air forwards in the engine compartment up into those corners of the car. Because there is no airflow from outside the car there, it just sits and gets warmer and warmer and warmer.

Something to keep in mind if you wanted to put a short ram into the corner.

 

Talk about a HOT air intake haha.gif

 

Anything in your engine bay is going to be hot after driving your car.

Also, it is summer. Not sure what the weather is like where you are from, but here is gets in the upper 90's every day. My CAI is hot no matter if my car is running or not.

I say it is fine. With what everyone has posted, I find it hard to believe that we all have problems with our Tibs and 1-2 do not. I have had my AEM on for over a year now without an issue.

 

kinda irrelevant, but interesting. I just got his laser-pointer temperature/thermomemetor thing, basically you point the laser at whatever object you want to measure it's temperature and it tells you to a tenth of a degree. Very acurate, even works if you point it into the sky to give you the outside temperature.

Anyway, I was playing with it and decided to use it as an engine thermomemter, lol. After 10-20min. of driving, my headers were 254degrees and my CAI was 116 I believe. The head was 2sumthin and the spark plug cover was low 100's.

Ihave no idea how this little toy works, but I'd like to know.

 

make intake out of pvc , problem solved

 

CAI will be hot or something is wrong. It will have hot air blowing from the radiator onto it. Your engine should not over heat. Most likely something might have happened while you were installing the CAI and it caused something to either block up in your radiator/thermostat or something broke/came loose. The radiator is a closed system. you should not loose any water out of it. If you fill up your radiator and it drains your extra coolant tank, then you have a problem with your coolant system, not intake.

-off topic super cool science lesson-
Patreezy,

When you heat an object, particals begin to move faster.; When a partical is excited it will move away from it's origonal position, when it then settles to its origonal position, a bit of energy is emitted (a photon). When the photons become emitted in enough frequency and volume, you will be able to see it glow red on the visible spectrum, then blue, then white.

heat can be read as frequency using a IR thermometer. The same way 'the predator' (was that a kick ass movie or what?!?!) could see people is the same way that thing reads temperature . the whiter, the hotter. It will convert a range of freqs to temperature readout. Most likely it has a spread of say 1:3 which means it measures 1 foot circle at 3 foot away from the object. it will give you the average temp over the foot. If you were to measure from a distance, it might be reading the temp off the ground not the engine.

you should recheck from a distance of 1 inch from your pipe.