Hot Feet in the passenger position

midnightsadie wrote:
BUY A sprinter no heat problems, ford chevy has had this for a hole lot of years ,and I have plenty of leg room. sold my bornfree just because of the heat problem. and lack of leg room.

Yes! A $100k solution for a $50 problem. :)

mlts22 wrote:
Earlier today, I saw this article in passing which had a good guide to wrapping a manifold so the heat stays there, and doesn't wind up in the vehicle.

Another idea is to use HushMat/DynaMat/FatMat (whatever is either the thermal or both thermal/noise... just the noise without thermal will melt) insulation on the floorboards. This is something that I definitely plan to do around the doghouse area.

Wrapping the manifold will make it brittle and ultimately crack, unfortunately. I recommend against this.

You could fabricate a heat shield that bolts to the cylinder head and leaves an air-gap between it and the manifold, or create an air-gap between the dog house and floorboards. The stock manifolds are not shielded, so this would help a ton.

Old Crows wrote:
Ditto! Bit smaller RVs but very nice and efficient.

Looked at Ford & Chivvy based RVs in 2010 and ran away. They haven't changed in 40 years. Exactly the same issues with my FiL's Coachman Leprechaun. Passenger side foot wells were so hot it melted the rubber gaskets & floor mat. Hot air leaks around the dog house. Hideous seats jammed against the dog house. Jokingly small AC ducts in the dash. More plastic chrome!

If the footwells are getting so hot that the floormat melted (350*+), I'd say there was a serious mechanical problem (perhaps the coach was on fire?) that should've been fixed.

As for seat appearance, they look like automobile seats to me?

Small AC ducts? They look like normal sized automotive dash vents to me. Would you like some 14x14 wall registers installed in the dash?

Plastic chrome? You don't think the 3-pointed star on the front of der auto is actual chromed metal do you?