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Thu 8 Jan 2004 10:02
Wrap up your engine to save fuel - Dude - {P}

I see that a German professor at Cologne Tecnical College has developed a new thermal jacket for a car`s engine, that is claimed to save 5% fuel even during the summer months, apart from the obvious benefit of quieter running.

It seems one of the prestige German manufacturers will be the first to fit this option.
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Thu 8 Jan 2004 10:17
Wrap up your engine to save fuel - Marcos{P}
And then it wil catch fire!
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Thu 8 Jan 2004 10:59
Wrap up your engine to save fuel - Ford Dagenham
hello.

Unless it is made from fireproof material.

Kind Regards
Martin Winters
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Thu 8 Jan 2004 12:51
Wrap up your engine to save fuel - Marcos{P}
It which case the whole engine bay will implode.

Surely as manufacturers are striving to get thermal efficiency you would have thought that the manufacturers of engines would have already tried this sort of thing.
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Thu 8 Jan 2004 13:26
Wrap up your engine to save fuel - Mobile Office
Hi

There was a big publication on this in the late October 2003 issue of The Engineer magazine............

www.e4engineering.com/item.asp?ch=e4e_automotive&t...7

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