Netters, I've just recently started doing some extensive taxiing in a KR I bought last year (completed but not flown yet). The battery, garden tractor type, died and I replaced it with an AGM-fiberglass matrix battery. The battery is mounted on the engine side of the firewall and the starboard exhaust pipe runs within an inch of it. The pipe is wrapped with a heatproof cloth.
After a couple hours of ground work, runups and taxiing, the battery case has become deformed from the heat of the exhaust pipe, though it still functions. Is there a way to shield the battery effectively or duct blast air between it and the exhaust pipe? Anyone else had this problem? Don (Houston, TX).
