[Roadsters] body-to-muffler gapping, 1" required

[Tim]

my muffler has a heat shield on it and that is basically right up 
against the body. I have not noticed any issues and have sat in Chicago 
interstate traffic in this Roadster in teh middle of summer for hours 
barely moving.

Am I not having melting issues becuase of the heat shield? Seems awful 
close (touching the body in one spot) to me. Am I just lucky?
tim


On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:33 AM, O'Farrell, Fergus P (AS) wrote:

> Not to belabor this painful subject, but I also had the "blister the 
> carpet"
> scenario when I had exhaust work done way back when.
> Luckily, there was a roadster-folk get-together soon after, and when I
> mentioned it, Les Cannaday promptly said "Minimum 1" gap required, go 
> back and
> get it done ASAP".
>
> The muffler shop did it no problem, no charge.
>
> Never knew how lucky I was until the video of recent events.  While 
> rolling it
> is probably no big deal, but stop-and-go traffic means a lot of time 
> to heat
> soak.
> (same thing we found with composite driveshafts at my old job, it 
> wasn't high
> performance driving that would overheat them, it was the drive-up 
> window at
> McD's)
>
> Peter, I have an old center console in the garage, although it is 
> without the
> foam (tin only).  I recovered mine in leather without the foam (using 
> a pair
> of women's leather pants from the Goodwill store, cheapest upholstery 
> material
> I've ever bought!) so let me know if you want it, or if you want to 
> come down
> we can recover it some weekend.
>
> Fergus O
> PS: saw a Fiat 850 coupe on the freeway on Saturday, and fell in love.
> Obscenely tiny, makes a roadster look like  '64 caddy !
> ________________________________________
>
> datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net
>
> Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html
> Archive: http://www.team.net/archive
> Forums: http://www.team.net/forums
> Unsubscribe: 
> http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/datsun-roadsters/tputland@charter.net