EFI....The only way to fly!

[Ken]

Hi,

Check this out.  Last year I was having email conversations with a guy named Victor at a company that was producing "phenolic spacers" for VW's which are intended to reduce the heat transfer to intake manifolds from the head.

I was going to arrange to send him a gasket so that he could make a pattern and start producing them for 10v I5's.  I didn't follow through with the plan at the time, because I had other priorities.

Here is the company I was dealing with:

http://www.evolutiontuning.com/minievoheatshields.jpg

Here are some other sites about similar products:

http://home.san.rr.com/scmorgan/spacers/Installation.htm
http://www.geocities.com/marcalankennedy/phenospacer.html

Anyways, this seems like a good way to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak, and get the intake manifold spaced away from an EFI fuel rail, while at the same time potentially reducing intake temps.

Later,

Ken

Jim Green jeg1976 at yahoo.com wrote:
>
> I don't think Mike has an MC intake manifold (maybe he
> does?), but I had an idea recently.  If you could use
> some kind of thick intake manifold gasket or 1/4"
> spacer, you could gain enough room.  Even doubling up
> the gasket might help.  It is a really close fit and
> you can make it work, but usually have to file down
> the fuel rail to get the intake hose on.  The easiest
> way is to just get a KH IM that has a round throttle
> body and be done with it.  You will have to re-route
> the pre-throttle body ISV feed since you loose that on
> the KH IM.  You simply "T" it in with the feed to your
> bypass valve.