<VV> Engine compartment heat

[ricebugg at comcast.net]

While I'm not sure what the potential contamination is of hogwash, or the tempature tolerance of internal regulated alternators, I can offer this observation on the engine compartment temp.  

Once upon a time, I had a turbo charged 140. I got curious about how hot it got on shutdown.  Since I had access to tempature sticks at work - they looked like caryons for 2 yr olds - I borrowed a set one hot Friday in July.  It was 94 deg. F on Sat, and I used the sticks liberally in the engine compartment.   I saw temps approaching 300 deg F on the sheet metal minutes after shut down.  Made me wish I had a Stinger deck lid to let the hot air out at shutdowm. 

 Skin starts to burn at 126 deg F,   If you cannot touch it for long, it is hot enough to burn you pinkies.

Your temps may vary.  

Historically Yours,
	James Rice

Message: 4
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 21:14:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: N2VZD at aol.com
Subject: Re: INTERNAL regulated alternators
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org

hogwash, I have thousands of miles on several of my own and others with no  
failures. FC's mostly , but on spyders also..
I am running them on 4 vehicles of my own , and several others I have  
converted around here.
They are also excellent on farm equipment and  boats.  I feel they are very failsafe.

In a message dated 4/9/2012 8:28:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
virtualvairs-request at corvair.org writes:but I've  heard (not experienced) that the 
internally regulated ones don't seem to  hold up as well in our hot (Corvair) engine compartments.
Regards, Tim Colson