TarrTech e36 Intake

[moranor@axis]

another great TarrTech product :rollsmile:

for great induction sound, better throttle response and minor performance increase...

heat shield is made of stainless steel and powder coated for maximum heat reflection

also makes provision for the intake temp sensor located in the older models intake.

comes with all mounting hardware and air filter
R 2500

Installed pic with TarrTech Brace

 

[dvst8]

Mmmmmmm . . ... .

Would that Heat Shield fit in the Z3 Engine bay ?

:idea:

 

[zaleonardz]

Im impressed guys

Quality of product seems excellent..

 

[Bayn46]

Seen it, touched it and smelled it - top top quality, extremely solid unit :thumbs:

Just need one for the E46 :fencelook:

 

[moranor@axis]

Mmmmmmm . . ... .

Would that Heat Shield fit in the Z3 Engine bay ?

:idea:

Z3 tower is very different so this wont shield properly without modification

Im impressed guys

Quality of product seems excellent..

you were expecting anything but excellent :rollsmile:

 

[freerider]

Another locally manufactured product. :thumbs:

 

[dvst8]

Mmmmmmm . . ... .

Would that Heat Shield fit in the Z3 Engine bay ?

:idea:

Z3 tower is very different so this wont shield properly without modification

:argh:

 

[zabbo]

I will be at the Killarney Track Day on Sunday if anyone wanted to see the products installed - braces and intake are fitted to my car :thumbs:

 

[Psymon69]

but what about small birds?:rollsmile:

seriously, sounds great and really looks good in the bay:thumbs:

 

[moranor@axis]

small birds?

your car will devour them no problem :rollsmile:

 

[Gregmeister]

:thumbs: Looks guud! When we did some dyno tests on the 325 before stripping the motor, we took the airbox off to compare outputs and we got a 10kw gain. So this would surely see at least a 6-7kw gain.

 

[moranor@axis]

we dont want to quote gains without extensive Dyno testing but 6-7kw gain seems reasonable

 

[Mike1]

Another epic product by an epic local company! Well Done! :joy:

 

[ChrisBrand]

heat shield is made of stainless steel and powder coated for maximum heat reflection

There is actually a quite easy and cheaper way to make shield reflect a lot more heat.

Tin foil?

 

[Twinz]

Great quality product. Have seen how Freerider sat with the designers and manufacturer to make this exactly according to his specs and ideas. Just brilliant coming from S.A.
:bravo:

 

[moranor@axis]

heat shield is made of stainless steel and powder coated for maximum heat reflection

There is actually a quite easy and cheaper way to make shield reflect a lot more heat.

whats that?

 

[moranor@axis]

heat shield is made of stainless steel and powder coated for maximum heat reflection

There is actually a quite easy and cheaper way to make shield reflect a lot more heat.

Tin foil?

In a way yes......what you want with a metal based heat reflector is for the finish to be as much a mirror finish as it possible, so leaving the metal bare will reflect more heat and if you go further and you polish the metal you can increase the amount of heat reflected further.
We use aluminium mirrors to reflect heat (coating of aluminium on glass), it reflects around 95% of the incident heat. (To put this into perspective your typical bathroom mirror only reflects about 75% of light.)
In general if something reflects light it will reflect heat as well, so darker colours and matt finishes will tend reflect less heat than lighter colours and glossy finishes.

dont know how it will look but maybe we can look into powder coating the inside and polishing the outside

 

[moranor@axis]

Sankekur the 1st idea was to make it from aluminium but it was then decided to use stainless because it conducts heat way less than aluminium...

are you saying that we would have been better off with aluminum?

 

[ChrisBrand]

Wouldn't Aluminium be lighter as well? I think your idea was good to use steel rather than Al because it does not absorb as much heat but then painting it black reversed your intention and it absorbs again. Maybe keep the raw Steel or shiny Al?

 

[moranor@axis]

If TarrTech can use aluminum on the next production run we will definitely look at it as an improvement on the existing design because of weight...

but I am unsure of sanks physics on this one because stainless most definately conducts less heat, but if we can polish aluminium and powder coat the inside it will be a win... will definitely look into it