Cover the exhaust pipe with light aluminum foil keeping it about 1/4" from the pipe with pop rivets. The auto manufactures do a similar thing under the hood. Its a IR shield.
Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: "SPRAGUE, DONALD E. (JSC-SD) (KS)" <donald.e.sprag...@jsc.nasa.gov> To: <kr...@mylist.net.> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 12:27 PM Subject: KR>hot battery > Netters, > > I've just recently started doing some extensive taxiing in a KR I bought > last year (completed but not flown yet). The battery, garden tractor type, > died and I replaced it with an AGM-fiberglass matrix battery. The battery > is mounted on the engine side of the firewall and the starboard exhaust pipe > runs within an inch of it. The pipe is wrapped with a heatproof cloth. > > After a couple hours of ground work, runups and taxiing, the battery case > has become deformed from the heat of the exhaust pipe, though it still > functions. Is there a way to shield the battery effectively or duct blast > air between it and the exhaust pipe? > > Anyone else had this problem? > > Don (Houston, TX). > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html >
