I f you thermal wrapped a cold air kit(my piece of mac)from the fender duct up to the throttle body do you think that it would keep the air cooler cause it to heat up faster?
The hot pipe doesn't have a huge effect, even if you get cold air to the engine the engine is hot, so the air will heat up, the only thing that will really cool it off is the cry 02 or any methanol injection, The metal CAI should work fine