Heat Shield / Intercooler Ducting

[Crazy Eddie]

Hi Guys,
Your expert thoughts and advice are required please:
I noticed that the Air Filter has been getting a bit hot after drives and so I have fabricated a heat shield out of Aluminium that I hope will stop some of the heat that must be comming from the coolant pipe right below the filter, shown in 1st 2 pics.

What are your thoughts?

Secondly, the standard ducting only covers about 2/3 of my SMIC (as shown in second 2 pics) so what would you suggest / what have you done? ie, ducting made to fit??

Thanks guys looking forward to ideas and thoughts.

Cheers
Eddie:Thumbs-up

[Baz116]

Put a front mount intercooler on!:p

go on... you know you want to......

[Crazy Eddie]

Put a front mount intercooler on!:p

go on... you know you want to......

Will have to improve my metalwork before I can make a Front Mount!!!
Budget spent for now hence these freebee ideas :Thumbs-up

[m4drx]

can you make me one please eddie?  :o

[Baz116]

Mine is just having this fitted at the moment, same as greddy 1 but without the name (even came with greddy fitting instructions(shame there in jap!!)), and its £100 cheaper!!!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Front-Mount-Intercooler-Mazda-RX7-FD3S_W0QQitemZ250085975129QQihZ015QQcategoryZ52640QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Baz116]

the heat shield you have made looks good eddie, should do the trick i`d of thought.
Can you not make new ducting for the intercooler? replace the standard one but expands to cover all the intercooler??? Don`t know if it would make much difference though?

[Fish]

Was checking some of the folders on the computer and came across this document I saved years back.

Might be of interest to some.

Fish

[gmogle]

Good doc there fish !!!

Crazy Eddie I am liking that heat shielding. Need to do something like that myself as my HKS filters get the hot air from the radiator blowing upwards to them !!