> In the UK DIY and plumbers' merchants sell squares of a woven fabric
> material to use as a heat shield when doing soldered pipe joints. I have a
> piece about a foot square and it is amazingly good at controlling heat
> transfer. I think this could be very easily cut and glued or riveted to
the
> underside of the standard metal heat shield.
We have this on our side of the pond as well. I bolted a chunk of this stuff
to the underside of my heat shield after a Missouri Endurance Rally that was
boiling everything under the bonnet. Never drove it again in conditions that
hot, so it is hard to tell if it made a significant difference.
David Lieb
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