Jim Rosenthal
Supporter
There's a gold foil material in the Pegasus catalog, described as "gold-colored heat reflective film" p108. This LOOKS like the material that was used under the bonnet of the McLaren F1 car, but is clearly not the same stuff at the price. Has anyone used it and could they report on how well it worked or didn't work?
I think most of these heat-reflective materials work fairly well, maybe better than that. I don't know how well the adhesives hold up, though. This stuff, because it's light, might work well because it would likely stay where it was supposed to even when heat softened the adhesive.
I also found out from a friend who's building a racing Miata on a budget that he's using a heat-reflective material called Reflectix (Lowes) which is basically plastic with air bubbles with aluminized Mylar film on both sides. He got the idea from a Corvette racing site that claimed it worked very well at heat and sound insulation. Has anyone here used Reflectix? I'd be curious to know how it worked out.
We are getting to the point where we're going to have to face these sorts of problems in the fairly near future, and I would like to know what other folks have done about trying to keep engine heat in the engine area, not have engine heat cook the rear bodywork, and keep tunnel heat in the tunnel. I know these things have been brought up in the past, but I don't think these two materials have been looked at here.
Thanks in advance for any contributions.
I think most of these heat-reflective materials work fairly well, maybe better than that. I don't know how well the adhesives hold up, though. This stuff, because it's light, might work well because it would likely stay where it was supposed to even when heat softened the adhesive.
I also found out from a friend who's building a racing Miata on a budget that he's using a heat-reflective material called Reflectix (Lowes) which is basically plastic with air bubbles with aluminized Mylar film on both sides. He got the idea from a Corvette racing site that claimed it worked very well at heat and sound insulation. Has anyone here used Reflectix? I'd be curious to know how it worked out.
We are getting to the point where we're going to have to face these sorts of problems in the fairly near future, and I would like to know what other folks have done about trying to keep engine heat in the engine area, not have engine heat cook the rear bodywork, and keep tunnel heat in the tunnel. I know these things have been brought up in the past, but I don't think these two materials have been looked at here.
Thanks in advance for any contributions.