This is strange because when my pipes are hot the heat shields are also very very hot, and I really believe they are blocking some of the heat, the question is whether it's really significant enough to make any difference.

 

You may be on to something here, maybe it's not the hard runs causing the heat maybe it is the sitting in traffic after and in between. A good point to try is to check pipes with engine hot and if they are cool, close the hood and check them a good 1/2 hour or so later as car sits. I am going to try to go on a few hard runs without stopping in traffic etc. right after and pull over and check them out. One way to figure this out once and for all.

 

thanks for sharing.

 

OK, I think we have figured this out. I did just what u said tonight. I got home from running hard on the highway and my pipes were cool to the touch, I then closed my hood and went back an hour later opened up my hood and to my surprise my pipes were very very hot to the touch, so it seems to be clear that the pipes heat up when their is no air flowing into the engine bay from movement and the heat from the engine is just trapped in the engine bay.

So if you run hard and stop and get stuck in traffic you can be sure your pipes are going to get scalding hot. But I'm pretty sure if you keep the G moving the pipes will stay cool even when u run the car hard. I don't think the JWT's suffer from heat soak as they do stay cool under hard driving conditions, and as long as you are not stuckk in traffic and the G keeps moving, I believe you will not have any power loss.

 

Which size bolt did you use for the screw? I'm going to this when I clean this filters this weekend. 3 months and my intakes are dark gray. I drive a lot though.

 

I'm actually not sure, I had a few laying around in my tool box and this one just happened to fit, so I have no idea what size it is, sorry. What you could do is bring the bolt with you to home depot or any hardware store and test out the nuts until you find one that fits. Good luck, you will be much happier with the look once you get that passengers side intake down low like the driver's side, it amazes me that JWT couldn't design a better bracket to correct this problem out of the box.

 

Good job buddy, happy my post helped you out. You ended up doing a better job lol thanks for the info, will actually try to do it your way i think it will work better

Thank you

 

great info. thanks for going back and testing it again.

 

Hey that's what I love about these forums, all about helping each other out with ideas etc. If it wasn't for your post I wouldn't have reached the final setup that I did. Still amazes me that JWT couldn't have just redesigned a bracket to fit properly so we wouldn't have to rig this thing up like this.