Anyone familiar with Zycoat/Zycor/Zybar?

[AustinGRSupra]

What I’m wondering is would it be worth coating/painting a MST intake to reduce heat soak?

https://zycoat.com/

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[Benjilis]

Buddy of mine had this on his mustang.
it for sure reduced engine bay temperatures and only cost about $300ish total. Even if the temperature reduction isn’t 40% like they claim but just 10%, that’s still a good price for effect ratio.

 

[AustinGRSupra]

Buddy of mine had this on his mustang.
it for sure reduced engine bay temperatures and only cost about $300ish total. Even if the temperature reduction isn’t 40% like they claim but just 10%, that’s still a good price for effect ratio.

I wonder if the reflective Zycor on the exterior of a MST intake would help. Kinda surprised no one has done this?

 

[Benjilis]

I wonder if the reflective Zycor on the exterior of a MST intake would help. Kinda surprised no one has done this?

I haven’t had the need to look into it as I Havnt had any dangerous amount of heat

 

[Thraxbert]

ZyCor is just high-temp spraypaint, and it confers no thermal benefits.

ZyBar is an active coating, probably some sort of ceramic, and should only be applied to turbo hotside materials. You could use ZyBar on the hotside of the turbo, downpipe, or turbo flange to the engine block.

You could "wrap" the intake box in reflect-a-gold for modest IAT benefits, but the best solution is to simply get more cold air into the airbox with a snorkel and/or better a2w intercooling with an upgraded intake manifold.

 

[underdonk]

ZyCor is just high-temp spraypaint, and it confers no thermal benefits.

ZyBar is an active coating, probably some sort of ceramic, and should only be applied to turbo hotside materials. You could use ZyBar on the hotside of the turbo, downpipe, or turbo flange to the engine block.

You could "wrap" the intake box in reflect-a-gold for modest IAT benefits, but the best solution is to simply get more cold air into the airbox with a snorkel and/or better a2w intercooling with an upgraded intake manifold.

When you say reflect-a-gold you're talking about the shiny gold heat tape, right?

 

[AustinGRSupra]

If I’m not mistaken, I saw this on a certain local Supra’s MST:

Design Engineering 010392 Reflect-A-GOLD High-Temperature Heat Reflective Adhesive Backed Sheet

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0039Z5TRC/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_api_glt_fabc_MT91CPHFXCNT52S2F9ER

 

[Thraxbert]

When you say reflect-a-gold you're talking about the shiny gold heat tape, right?

That's the one.

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