Phenolic Spacer - Intake Manifold

[noone]

I've had a phenolic spacer sitting in my shed of bits for over a year now. Somehow it has not attached itself to my car...

I've read a few DIY's for Mk4 GTI's, etc, but wanted to know if anyone has done this on the Polo and has any firsthand experience.

Cheers.

[Tim]

I think Troy (aka VWTHUNDER) has one on his Polo. Might want to ask him if he has noticed any gain from it.

[flat6]

In theory they look good, yet i imagine there to be no gain in power, maybe responsiveness?

[vwthunder]

I have one and finally got around to putting it in.

It is a turbo car, so it normally drives different depending on the weather, so something as small as this, you are probably not going to notice.

In saying that I have a scangauge and I have been monitering intake temps and seems to be a bit lower when driving, still looks like it is getting the heatsoak when stopped.

Not hard to put in, but it does take a while, you need to have a gasket each side of it

[hazrd]

What does it do?

[vwthunder]

Reduces the intake temp by seperating the intake manifold from the head, so the heads heat is not transfered as heatsoak into the intake manifold

[Greg Roles]

An absolutley great idea if you have metal inlet manifold. If it's plastic, effect will be marginal at best.

[Buller_Scott]

where's the link on ECS?

[vwthunder]

Volkswagen Golf IV 1.8T > Engine > Intake > Power Gasket > ES#1393 Power Gasket Plus - NSPG18T

[Buller_Scott]

cheers troy