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Old 09-03-2014, 02:05 PM
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Exclamation Looking for a small structural material that doesn't conduct/transfer heat.
Maybe some of you more familiar with materials can help out... Here's my problem & my plan to fix.
On a warm day when I stop the car after driving, my fuel log warms up & heats the fuel. If I can't get it righ back out on the road, it doesn't really cool off & I need to adjust my idle screws to compensate. This is far from ideal. So the fuel log it attached to the Y-manifold (coolant) by aluminum uprights. What I want to do is cut a section of those uprights out & bolt in a piece of non conductive material, much the shape of the aluminum flatbar, which the uprights are made from, in the hopes that the heat stays with the Y-manifold.
I do have some carbon fiber sheeting, which I can sandwich together to make a sturdy piece. However it seems that CF does conduct some heat. Any Ideas?
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