Soooooo, what is the good deal with this new toy?. Firstly, its not carbon kevlar or carbon fibre. Its carbon composite. You need to google up and read more about carbon composite making where racing teams have been using in Europe for rally products and also ITBs interestingly.
Since heat is one of the 7 engine-deadly-sins, my brother's main plan is to make sure hot tempreature doesnt reach the cold air and also the fuel delivery. Unlike mine, the rail won't heat soak as easily as an aluminum rail. I have no choice since they dont make them for the Mitsubishi 4G9x, unless i decided to ceramic coat it which is not cheap either. No luck for me.
Generally speaking, its good to note that once the temperature of the rail exceeds the temp of the air around it, it will no longer absorb heat from its suroundings, and will start radiating heat to the air. So once its heat soaked by the intake manifold, the surrounding air will no longer be heating it, but rather, cooling it.
Boiling Points :
1) If you have a black hood that makes things worst under the sun
2) If you have a semi-race engine that makes more energy and also HEAT
3) If you have less air-ducts to flow cool air inside the engine bay
Cooling Points (Based on my bro's setup) :
1) Hondata intake gasket (done)
2) Heatwrapped Intake (done)
3) SKUNK2 composite fuel rail (coming soon)
4) Throttlebody spacer (still thinking)
5) Cold negative chamber air box (still thinking)
6) SKUNK2 carbon composite intake manifold (not cheap i reckon)
Again, like i said, if you want bang for the buck, go for NOS. This toy doesnt make 50shots of 50hp from what u have spent. Anything that increases the engine system's efficiency, we'll give it a shot.
For more info about heat convection and conduction from gas, liquid and solid, you can do a search on THERMODYNAMICS or go to MPH and have a flip on the related books.
(Photos taken using Nokia N70)
