<VV> Manifold heat soak

Ron ronh at owt.com
Sat Aug 4 13:16:42 EDT 2007


The aftermarket will make and sell anything that people will buy.

RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Crawford Rose" <crawfordrose at msn.com>
To: <JVHRoberts at aol.com>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> Manifold heat soak


> Look, if it doesn't work, then why did the aftermarket supply and market 
> an aluminum product for that purpose? It should work for a normally 
> aspirated motor with a 460 valve temps; I don't see why it would "fail". 
> It might get soft; it might leak; it might corrode quickly. However, this 
> is not to say it won't work to pass exhaust to the muffler. Using that 
> reasoning, my turbocharger bearing housing should be molten scrap, 
> adjacent to the 600 degree turbo exhaust, after a hard run.
> Crawford Rose
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: JVHRoberts at aol.com
>  To: crawfordrose at msn.com ; virtualvairs at corvair.org
>  Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 6:58 AM
>  Subject: Re: <VV> Manifold heat soak
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>  Sure, then you'd have cast aluminum in the shape of the lower shrouds. 
> <G>
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>  In a message dated 8/3/2007 9:08:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> crawfordrose at msn.com writes:
>    Manifolds are iron, lead to heat soak? Maybe the vendors would cast 
> them in
>    aluminum for us!
>
>    Crawford
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