On 7/20/2012 10:40 PM, John Meeks wrote: > The valve covers are aluminum. Should have pretty good heat dispersed > properties. Al has about 5x the thermal conductivity of steel, but I suspect those covers are more than 5x the thickness of steel ones, so it would be a net loss. At a bare minimum, paint them flat black, so they radiate heat better. |
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