Is their a benifit to using exhaust wrap on the carb inlet?

The inlet will be "flowed" to a small extent, then painted with h-temp paint, but will I get a benifit from using the exhaust wrap?

I would say most of the inlet manifold temperature increase is conduction from the head.

You can get thermally insulating gaskets that help reduce heat transfer to inlet manifold.. other than that there's very little you can do easily.

Reducing under bonnet temperatures generally is a good thing, having good vents in the right places, wrapped exhaust within the engine bay..

More practical approach would be a good cold air feed into your intakes, and run your engine at a slightly lower temperature than you would normally..i.e reduce operating temp/remove your thermostat..

You could do some simple tests. Let it idle for say 20mins, measure the temp of the manifold runners..

Then make some changes to the running temp, and see if that feeds back to a slightly cooler inlet manifold...? who knows sounds like fun..

[Edited on 23-3-08 by takumi]

any changes, i suspect will be negligible in real world situations.

a thermal gasket might be the exception..

ok, so its a slight maybe if done right, however would it also help in stopping the inlet/carb freezing?

have seen "condensation" on inlets due to cold weather.

The inlet freezing is generally not because of the weather. The cold merely exaggerates the existing situation. The inlet is cold/freezing due to the air/fuel mix going through it and then cooling the inlet walls down. This can then be enough to freeze the water in the air. I have had ice on the outside of the black painted inlet on my mini in the middle of summer before!