EFI....The only way to fly!

[gerard]

> Check this out.  Last year I was having email conversations with a
> guy named Victor at a company that was producing "phenolic spacers"
> for VW's which are intended to reduce the heat transfer to intake
> manifolds from the head.
>
> I was going to arrange to send him a gasket so that he could make
> a pattern and start producing them for 10v I5's.  I didn't follow
> through with the plan at the time, because I had other priorities.

I was intending to have a aluminium spacer made up for my EFI project,
but this phenolic spacer sounds ideal.

However, it seems the spacer on that Ford Essex engine is quite roughly
cut, leading me to believe one could get a slab of the stuff and cut the
gasket oneself.

What sort of companies sell phenolic sheets? I'm no plastics expert, so
what other names is phenolic known as? I need to know that 'cos the
folks out here in Africa tend to talk about things by different names
(Try asking them about AN fuel fittings!). I can always have a workshop
make a piece using a gasket as a pattern.

G.