Intake manifold construction

[Seth]

The problem is that the glass/fiber reinforced manifolds are not made
with thermoset epoxy. They are made with medium to high temp
thempoplastic matrix material. Not the same thing as room temp cure
epoxy. I am not saying that it won't work per se, just that at the head
interface, you might be probing the glass transition temperature of your
easier to work with matrix material.

-Seth

By the way, tyrrell had a few a-arm failures 2 races ago in their carbon
fiber a-arms. They delaminated from heat. And they have to deal with
just conduction from the front uprights, and they have a 150+ mph forced
convection cooling. 
MysticZ wrote:
> 
> Huw Scourfield wrote:
> >
> > The modern Rover 200 s use a black plastic, so grp should be ok if it will
> > stand vacuum/pressure.
> 
> And the LS1 in 97+ Vettes and 98+ F-bodies is FRP. There are a few
> turbocharged LS1s out there, some with rediculous amounts of boost, so I
> don't think there's a problem with pressure.
> --
> Steve
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