A couple of days ago I tested New Beetle 1.8t. One of the safety features
the salesman pointed out was that VW uses a special material on the
underside of the hood. Of course it is a sound and heat insulator, but
also if the temp in the engine compartment gets too hot (as in fire),
then the material melts off the hood and drops onto the engine to help
smother the fire. I wonder if this material could be adapted to our
engine covers.

The NB 1.8t, by the way, is one quick beetle.

Steve

On Sun, 13 Jun 1999 18:06:52 -0700 Kirk Davis <kbd@NDX.NET> writes:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> ... I've seen plenty of  toasted waterboxer vanagons that the
>> plastic engine acess lid has melted, and caved into the engine, and
>added
>> fuel to the fire, while the flames shot right into the vans
>> interior..
>
>I guess this gives new meaning to the phrase "Internal Combustion"....
>:-)