Good morning Listers ... I am writing from the NEMGTR GOF in Mystic, CT.
Stu, I also installed a heat shield and put an insulating blanket under the
carpet and it has helped.
What really got my attention was the 'floorboard' above the muffler had
become totally discolored from the heat. It looks like a good potential for
a fire. I wonder what the folks in the 50's did with this problem.
Gene, Vermont
Eliot, '53 TD,
Unrestored
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From: mg-t-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:mg-t-bounces@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Stuart Keen
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 10:14 PM
To: MG
Subject: [Mg-t] Heat Deflector
My girlfriend says the heat from the exhaust pipe coming through the floor
board of the TD on the passenger side is almost intolerable. I am trying to
convince her that we should join the Rallye to Reno 2011 next June, but the
heat problem has to be convincingly fixed first. I have incorporated the
following but all together they have been insufficient
1. I laid between the carpet and the floorboard a sheet of asbestos cloth
(such as that used on the underside of the bonnet by some)
2. I mounted under the car on the passenger side a 1.5 ft sq sheet of
aluminum one half inch away from the floorboard (thus allowing air flow and
hopefully some shielding from the hot exhaust pipe below).
3. I installed down by the feet a small 6 inch whisper fan (such as used in
electronic equipment).
I am open to suggestions. Hopefully someone has come up with a viable
solution that has actually been tested. I can think of nothing else (other
than moving the exhaust pipe to the driver9s side and that9s out of the
question).
Any and all ideas will be appreciated.
Stu Keen
1951 MGTD Mk II
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