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Hi, Russell.....here's an interesting web site regarding heat shield material. www.tamfg.com/new/fb/fb.html I have some fibrefrax here. I used it between my firewall and the aluminum firewall covering. I will also use it between the brake disc and the nylaflow brake line tubing. Works very well as a heat shield, for what it's worth. The Renesis engine will probably sell for higher than it is now.....I had considered 4500.00 as the most I wanted to pay. Hope this helps. Paul Conner

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From: Russell Duffy

To: Rotary motors in aircraft

Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 7:50 PM

Subject: [FlyRotary] Fiberfrax?

Regarding my need for turbo insulation, a quick look through my Spruce catalog came up with this cool stuff, and now that I see it, I believe Tommy told me about this before. Supposedly, it's good for 2300 degrees continuous, and comes in 1/16" and 1/8" thicknesses. I'd have to say the 1/8" thickness of this stuff is the leading candidate for turbo wrap. There's also an aluminized heat shield material that is made my Thermo-tec, but since their exhaust wrap clearly doesn't stand up to 2000 degrees like they claim, I don't think I can believe any other Thermo-tec advertising.

Any experience with this Fiberfrax stuff?

Thanks,

Rusty

13 minutes left on the Renesis engine auction. It's at $5000 now, and I'm guessing it will go at $6200.