[DeTomaso] main water tubes

[Charles Engles]

Dear Guys,


               Yet another option on the water tubes in the main cooling 
circuit:   have them coated with aluminumized ceramic.    My local coating 
shop has done this for me.  The cosmetic results are good and the 
aluminumized ceramic should be inert to corrosion.   It also coats over the 
typical corrosion blemishes so that what was a yucky, normally corroded, 30 
year old pipe or tube----now looks pretty darn good.  Your mileage and 
inclination may vary.

                           Good luck and good cooling,  Chuck Engles
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <SOBill at aol.com>
To: <Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se>; <JDeRyke at aol.com>
Cc: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] main water tubes


Thomas,

Thanks for the input.

If need be, I'll try the regular snap on insulation that is  made to fit 1
1/4 tubing.

Simple, readily available, cheap.

Have fun,

SOBill  Taylor
sobill at aol.com


In a message dated 6/18/2008 11:40:57 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se writes:

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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