SilverGhost
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Mar 25, 2005
- Location
- Back in So Flo - St Lucie
- TDI
- '05 Golf - totaled :(, wife's '13 Beetle - buy back, TDIless
so no protection for hood getting hot?no hood blanket,
So any heat is immediately blown out the gaping openings all around the engine?fans on hard wires 100% of the time, no side skirts or belly pan,
So nothing between hot engine and painted hood?no insulation other than selective heat wrap on firewall,
So it sounds to me that in trying to make your point about hot engine bay and heat damage to battery being non-existent, you actually proved the opposite. You drove a car to create massive amounts of heat, but then dump it all out before battery has a chance to get baked.i race and autocross with ac on 100% of the time unless i have to keep my windows down like in PCA and CDC autocross events.
35 minutes of WOT track racing on a 95*F day with like 80% humidity with the AC on full blast and the battery still was able to be touched with no burning feeling. when i got back to the pit i have to feel it every time, also took thermal imaging back when i was doing that water injection and the battery was always one of the coolest parts of the engine bay.
Now if you had done the track time with full skirts/belly pan, left the hood and engine insulation on, let the fans cycle normally, then had to sit in the lineup with 10 or 15 other cars idling for their turn, that would have baked the battery.
Jason