[DeTomaso] main water tubes

[Göran Malmberg]

Why not try the Dynamat? It is said to have heat proofing qualities. And the 
aluminium top coat
is said to reflect heat in an efficent way. I spoked to their representative 
here in Sweden and
he claimed that in such case it should be mounted on the engine side of the 
firewall with the aluminium
reflecting header heat. So, a layer from the underside over the heater tubes 
should be fine.
But dont take it for granted.
Goran
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Tornblom" <Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se>
To: <JDeRyke at aol.com>
Cc: <SOBill at aol.com>; <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] main water tubes


Maybe wrapping the tubes up in Armaflex insulation would be a good thing?

Cheers,
Thomas

JDeRyke at aol.com skrev:
> In a message dated 6/18/08 9:18:48 AM, SOBill at aol.com writes:
>
>> I don't think the main cooling tubes can radiate or conduct much  heat 
>> into
>> the interior.
>>
> But they do. The prototype Pantera had the main water tubes running up in 
> the
> console and the radiated heat from plain steel tubes was bad enough to 
> force
> drivers out of the car. They lowered the tubes in production cars, but on 
> hot
> days, the gearshift lever still gets too hot to touch. Even leaving the
> gearshift boot out on a road car causes a noticable increase in cabin 
> heat. A couple
> of guys tried aluminum water tubes in the '80s and that caused the cabin
> heating to be very bad. Maybe if you add some sort of heat-reflective 
> material
> around the tunnel under the car? If you still try this, let us know how it 
> works
> without the A/C cranked all the way on. Thanks- J Deryke
>
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