Thread: underhood heat management

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I have Earl's stainless flex hoses to the calipers. When it happened last time I was going to the track and about 3/4 of the way there the pedal got so hard I could barely push it. As I was waiting to get in to the track I could see the smoke rising from the calipers and hear what sounded like the fluid boiling inside them. I have a factory manual brake booster and SSBC Force 10 calipers on factory discs up front. When the bleeder was cracked open nothing came out? This problem is very confusing. I also lost all fluid pressure to the rear brakes, so maybe the heat damaged the master cylinder and/or Wilwood prop valve too.

The cardboard was just a little brainstorm I had on a lazy afternoon. I was going to fabricate some ducting from the cowl area and a air box for the carb, but instead got sidetracked. I also started making some templates for some steering stops. I'm afraid of blowing a tire from them rubbing on the headers.

I have some header wrap in the shed. I've used it before. I was trying to avoid using it because the headers rust much more quickly. After I first installed the small block I wrapped the Hooker long tubes and they damn near disintigrated after 2 years. I am going to get the outsides of the headers black ceramic coated over the winter. If I add another 100 hp with a piston and head change then there will even more heat to deal with.