1.8T PowerGasket Gives you more power in your 1.8T by reducing the temperature of the incoming air to your engine with an insulating gasket that radically reduces the heat transfer from the cylinder head to the intake manifold. This gives you cooler, denser air for more horsepower and performance from your engine. Made from a high performance polymer, PowerGasket conducts on average less than 1/500th of the heat of the steel gasket that it replaces. Your intake manifold will stay 30-50 F cooler and your incoming air will stay 20-30 F cooler. Cooler air, denser air, means more oxygen. Your engine sensors register these changes and will inject more fuel to give you more power. Cooler air also reduces detonation, so you can turn up the boost or advance your engine timing for even more performance gains. PowerGasket has been designed for affordability, easy installation and no disruption to your manifold attachment and engine accessories. This means that you can simply swap your old intake manifold gasket for a PowerGasket. No buying longer bolts or installing multiple gaskets. In less than 2 hours, you will be enjoying a more powerful, better performing ride. Title Awesome Part # Price 45 Edited by: Lee-GTi
It might work in theory. I've seen a few graphs that show improvements, not that you can trust everything you read. If you do it you may want to look at this
Surely thats jus another one of those 'spec filler' 'for show' type products that does feck all really??
I suppose it all depends on what shape, where and how close your manifold runs to anything hot. Itd not give much benefit to an engine like a VR where the manifold runs as close as possible to the engine and finishes over the exhaust manifold. In certain applications it may be of benefit if the only heat soak the manifold is likely to get is from the head itself. You can go too far, what about the heat transfer from the bolts in the manifold??????
Don't buy this, its absolute toss! A guy on audi-sport.net did a full weekend at star performance on their rolling road testing all these types of "quick" mods. The result was absolutely no gain what so ever. Infact it lost torque due to the step it caused between the inlet and head. Hope that helps.
Power Gasket can't give you power.. Think about it. It can reduce the onset of heatsoak thru conduction up the intake manifold, hence fooling the airtemp sensor in the manifold into thinking.. EAK its hot..best go safer on engine settings (talking stock bosch ME7.x ecu here) Poor heat conducting gasket.. nice idea, but terrible implementation in the case of Newsouth Performance's particular product. Poor fitment, material 'flows' when tightened so intruding into the bore, does'nt come with fixings you *should* use (ie longer screws) I used a similar type product on the 16v Jetta years ago, but that was a solid material, fitted, and did reduce temps by 30'C on track testing. IMHO.. walk away from this one tho. Save ya money
i agree and had the same experience as Bill - tested a much thicker version with longer bolts about 3 years ago now on a race 8V and it made about the same difference. we ground it out to make sure it was a perfect fit to manifold and head tt
Surely, this advantage of reduced intake temperature is going to be disadvantages by increased combustion chamber temperatures. As the head will be retaining more of the combustion temperature due to being a reduced size heatsink. Cheers
oooh a lovely pair of farrah's would go dwon a treat atkinss - the cooling system should be able to cope with any increase that it would see from this phenomenon quite easily tt
