
Hello gentlemen, well since there appears to be a slight lull in the action I thought I might take the opportunity to jump in. I have been following this thread with awe for some time now and am totally amazed by the geniuses and brain trust contributing. I am incredibly grateful for the shared knowledge, have learned a lot and want to learn more.
Anyway as I sit in Northern Canada waiting for the snow to recede (more than my hairline). I thought I’d pose a question I have a few others tucked away but figured no sense unloading all at once.
In the interest of keeping things cool are there any other good tips on reducing thermal migration besides what was already mentioned about insulating ceramic coatings? I know F1 have been doing some of this.
I’ve included a pic of a few things I’ve done to my RZ to try and help. Added a red silicone baking sheet to the frame to isolate pipe heat from the crankcase and added RC motor heatsinks to the pipes with thermal paste to keep the first few inches of the pipe cool (learned that great piece of advice on this blog). One thing you can’t notice is the titanium flange nuts holding on the pipes. I used them because the thermal conductivity is less than steel (or stainless). That should (in theory at least) reduce the heat path from the pipe flange, through the nuts, along the studs and into the cylinder. Not much I’m sure but I’m thinking all the little bits help and might add up to something.
Other pic shows my oil filler plug heat pipe dragging oil heat up from the depths to dump it out to ambient. Uses acetone as the working fluid due to it’s low boiling point. Geez I hope I did this right and attached the pics properly. First time posters always have issues.
Anyway any other tips would be great. I apologize if his may have been covered in detail before but I have only been able to sift through about 500 pages of this gem of a discussion so far.
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