Personally, I can't see that insulating those pipes would be detrimental to keeping the engine at the proper operating temperature. In northern climes, insulating the fore and aft heater hoses has a positive effect on the heater output, though. Mike
mark drillock wrote: > The first 5 years had metal pipes, the next 20 years or so had plastic, > even as the engines became more powerful. Clearly VW did not consider > metal pipes to be the way to go. > > Mark > > Kenneth Lewis wrote: > >> I have to agree with Richard on this one. First, the Digifant series >> has plastic tubes which would be comparable, in heat loss, to rubber >> hoses. >> Second, even if you lost some cooling effect from the tubes, this >> radiator >> is used to satisfactorily cool much larger engine transplants, so it has >> plenty of extra capacity . >> Ken Lewis >> http://neksiwel.20m.com/ >> >> > |
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