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RE: transmission tunnel

To: Tommy Morris <morris@tmed.tatrc.org>,
Subject: RE: transmission tunnel
From: "Bowen, Patrick A" <PABowen@sar.med.navy.mil>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 12:58:49 -0400
The company that made the insulation in Tim's Spitfire is Thermotech in my
hometown of Ashland Ohio.  Unfortuneatly they do not deal directly to the
public, only to distributors, OEM's, Govt, Race Teams, and Magazines (for
publicity) I don't remember the number but you can call them and they will
tell you the closest distributor to them.  I have found you can find theri
stuff in almost any car parts store that sells performance equipment
(sometimes it has to be looked up in the catalogs)  
Enjoy

Patrick Bowen

-----Original Message-----
From: Tommy Morris [mailto:morris@tmed.tatrc.org]
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 11:46 AM
To: 'Bradley D. Richardson'; Triumph Spitfire Mail List
Subject: Re: transmission tunnel



Brad,

There was a great article in Grassroots Motorsports on insulating the tunnel
cover in the Ro-Spitfire that Tim Suddard was working on. I saw the
Ro-Spitfire at import Carlisle and I was very impressed with how the
Transmission cover was cool to the touch after the car was ran for awhile
(The Rotary exhaust gets to be around 1600 degrees).....I believe Tim POP
riveted the new insulation in. I don't recall the company that had the
product but you can e-mail Tim at grmtim@aol.com  or get a copy of the
July/August issue.

Hope this helps

Cheers,
Tommy




> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bradley D. Richardson [mailto:brichard@us.oracle.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 11:59 AM
> > To: Triumph Spitfire Mail List
> > Subject: transmission tunnel
> >
> > Need some advice.  My transmission tunnel needs replacement, I have the
> > replacement ABS plastic tunnel on order, should be here in a few days.
> >
> > The current tunnel has an insulation pad stapled to the interior of it.
> > I'm told the new one doesn't come with the pad.  Any thoughts out there
> > on how to install the pad on the new tunnel in a way that it won't fall
> > out.  Stapling through the plastic doesn't seem a good option, and
> > gluing doesn't seem stable enough.
> >
> > Brad Richardson
> > 79 spitfire
> > Portland, Oregon
>


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