me and my buddy were thinking....why not use water heater insulation for a cold air box?

you'd only need to build a skeleton to support it and then line the skeleton with the water heater insulation.

it sounds like a good idea since 1 - building a skeleton doesn't sound overly hard to do and 2 - they sell water heater insulation in gigantic rolls. if you screw up, you've got lots of it lying around to make another one.

i'm guessing water heater insulation is a much better insulator than thin aluminum also.

i haven't even attempted this yet, but having just insulated my water heater, i'm gonna try it real soon. any thoughts or ideas?

john

 

Hehe Its been done to death but I haven't seen an insulation used. My old heat shield was Carbon Fiber and it is nice and all. But I just decided to make the ultimate.

SEE SIG BELOW

 

Selanne8, you got pics of your creation?

 

Did this long ago out of thermale bubble wrap ... lol

 

Heh... thumbs up!

 

Double posts suck.. This server is slow tonight.

 

I just fell out of my chair laughing at this. Sorry for the hijack.

(OK I better actually contribute something...)

Why doesn't anyone double up the layers of aluminum for a cold air box, and pack the inside with insulation? That way it would just look like a "Thick" cold air box, but it would be insulated.

 

would the difference really be that much with insulation. i mean if you have cold air comming into the box at all times the intake temps would not be all that much significantly difficult

 

sorry the fricking server is slow tonight... sorry for the double post

 

kosh, that's exactly what i was thinkin! :-)

john