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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
You all using bagged insulation or typical house one sided?
The bagged stuff comes foil covered both sides or not, but the bag used to be semi puncture /rip proof
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I planned to use just normal house fiberglass insulation for now just for testing. Remove the paper and there's no fire hazard. I know several people that have used the same process to build their own insulated wood stove pipe and it works quite well. I'm sure there's better products to use, but the top of the engine doesn't exactly get that hot, I mean as the OP post says, there's plastic on the hood, so it's not going to get over ~125C as most plastics don't go hotter than that. PVC is roughly 80C which is common cheap wire insulation. Higher grade engine bay wire is 105-125C rated and intended to be used right on the engine, like the injector harness.
I figured that's the easiest thing I have around that's basically fire proof and insulates.