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Old 07-22-2017, 05:23 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by teoman View Post
How about the inner part as you describe, but instead of the heatsinkds it is encased in another square peofile tube which is a thermal syphon filled with water under a vacuum or lpg.
Or alternatively, what about a flat aluminum plate like part of a belly pan?
Or two L-shaped plates with TEGS to the sides, or for that matter, a plate with a square channel folded in to bond with TEGS on 3 sides, so the exhaust runs under it (I'm not fond of enclosing any part of the exhaust system between a belly pan and the rest of the car)?

About clamping force - no chance to use heat paste? That would provide full thermal conductivity even if the clamping force is low?

And last but not least - any estimates on how much weight it all will add?
This seems fairly lightweight so far - but it needs to be light to be worthwhile.

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