>If I had a place to do it and a parted out vanagon to test I would love to >test out various barriers in the back like a thin piece of sheet metal over >the engine lid or nomex fabric blanket or both and see if the fire could >intrude into the interior. The EPA would be onto you... A factory steel lid will not STOP the fire getting through, unless the engine compartment has nothing flammable in contact with it in the cargo-bay. The metal will get red-hot and ignite anything flammable on or near it... even the paint might be enough to set the whole van off. Also, once the rubber lid seal has caught fire, this will add to the flames & smoke inside the van, in addition to that making its way in through the resulting gap. What the metal lid WILL do is slow the fire's breakthrough down so that you can (hopefully!) take steps to put it out -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand Fossil preparator <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut HUMANITY: THE ULTIMATE VON NEUMANN MACHINE DEMOCRACY: RULE BY THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR |
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