How hot does the hot side get?

[NoFatChicks]

How hot does the air usually get on the discharge side of a supercharger? I have felt the pipe after a fairly vigorous drive & the 3" Stainless pipe gets hot but not burn your hand hot or anything like that.
Blown BA Falcon 4.0 six cyl.
The reason I ask is that I have a very tight (& strange angled)Fiberglass bend made with Vinyl ester resin with aluminum tube sandwiched & keyed into the fiberglass at each opening. Everyone told me it might soften under the blower heat but I think i have gotten it as hot as it can get & nothing has softened yet & I don't think that it will because I hammered it non stop for about 80 minutes. The metal tube ends seems to takes care of the tight clamps & there is no softening there, so I think it will be OK.
what do you guys think?

 

[thexav]

Any compression of air will raise the intake temps but never by enough to soften anything significantly.

Do you have an intercooler?

 

[NoFatChicks]

yes she's intercooled just after the pipe i was talking about. Temps are very cool after the intercooler.

 

[obi_waynne]

You should be fine, but keep an eye on it. Any loss of power may indicate a leak.

The flexing and bending is more likely to cause an issue than the heat created.

 

[NoFatChicks]

OK, Cheers guys I thought that it would be fine too, but it doesn't hurt to ask.
As for the flexing I will brace it to the blower & put a hump joiner at each end & that should help. If it breaks I will get a foundry to cast a version out of alloy.

 

[thexav]

Sounds like a good plan. Please upload some pics for us. (you'll need 10 posts to upgrade your account so you can post pic though.)