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Re: Europa-List: Wrap 914 exhaust?

Subject: Re: Europa-List: Wrap 914 exhaust?
From: Gilles Thesee <Gilles.Thesee@acgrenoble.fr>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 21:44:51

rparigor@suffolk.lib.ny.us a crit :

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>Is anyone wrapping the exhaust of 914?
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>Comments?
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Hi Ron and all,

No direct experience, we only wrapped the turbo, to prevent radiating 
too much heat inside the engine compartment.
Our kit manufacturer, Dyn Aero, once wrapped the 912 exhausts. They 
experienced numerous pipe failures due to corrosion, so they 
discontinued wrapping.
Considering that the 914 exhaust generates much more heat than normally 
aspirated engines, we had the pipes ceramic coated (1200C grade). After 
about 60 hours, the coating seems to hold, except some scaling on one or 
two places.

FWIW

Regards,
Gilles Thesee
Grenoble, France
http://contrails.free.fr



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