{"id":28552,"date":"2023-12-14T17:27:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/?p=28552"},"modified":"2023-12-14T17:27:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:27:20","slug":"this-foam-is-baffling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/12\/14\/this-foam-is-baffling\/","title":{"rendered":"THIS FOAM IS BAFFLING!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/tank_foamb_2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28553\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/tank_foamb_2-1-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Merlin Motorsport can supply TM15 foam, to help baffle your fuel tank, handy for racing purposes and for trackdays.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is manufactured to military-spec as it was once used in USAAF aircraft fuel tanks \u2013 and it is a reticulated polyurethane foam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supplied in either single 80mm cubes or as one cubic foot (56 cubes in total). There are several advantages to using this foam in your fuel tank.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TM15 effectively baffles fuel to prevent surge in performance vehicles under hard braking and cornering.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\nIt mitigates fuel spray in the event of a fuel tank rupture due to compression, like in the event of an accident.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\nPrevents explosions of ignited fuel vapours due to electrical arcing or overheating.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can be squashed and squeezed into difficult shapes of fuel tanks and down fuel filler necks.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A cost-effective way of making your fuel tank safer, while controlling fuel surge at the same time.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\nSuitable for all fuel types except Methanol.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No maintenance is required!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fuel tank explosion suppressant foam is now mandated by a number of recognised racing organisations including the FIA and SCCA \u2013 More from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk\/interspire\/link.php?M=151999&amp;N=476&amp;L=1832&amp;F=H\">FUEL TANK BAFFLE FOAM<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0or at the other end of\u00a0 01249 782 101 <strong>ENDS.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Merlin Motorsport can supply TM15 foam, to help baffle your fuel tank, handy for racing purposes and for trackdays. It is manufactured to military-spec as <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/12\/14\/this-foam-is-baffling\/\" title=\"THIS FOAM IS BAFFLING!\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}