Painting firewall

[procharger]

Is there a special paint for the engine side of firewall??

[Anticept]

Yes it's a fire resistant paint. Order from tulsa.

[Tom Baker]

4 hours ago, procharger said:

Is there a special paint for the engine side of firewall??

Does yours not have the firewall blanket?

[procharger]

painted with fire resistant paint

[FlyingMonkey]

15 hours ago, procharger said:

painted with fire resistant paint

Are there more details on this?  Is the paint instead of, or in addition to, the blanket?  What are the fire protection specs of the paint?

I've always hated the ratty look of the blanket, I'd like to have an alternative.

[Anticept]

The firewall blanket is better.

Take it from someone who went from the blanket to paint.

I want to go back.

The cabin is louder on mine because of it.

[Tom Baker]

From his post in the For Sale section it appears that he may have two airplanes, a CTSW and CTLS. The CTSW's either had no firewall protection from the factory, or the firewall blanket. The Early CTLS's had a firewall blanket, and soon switched to the firewall fire protection paint. When Flight Design introduced the blankets they offered a $1000.00 incentive to install the blankets. I have heard that cleaning the glue off from the blanket installation to paint the firewall is a pain in the behind.

[Madhatter]

When I was exploring the ability reduce cabin noise I installed Ceramic 2000 blanket over part of the existing firewall blanket. It's a very substantial product but difficult to apply easily. The stainless sheet attached to it is like handling knives but fire protection is substantial. If I had no firewall blanket I would probably use the one recommended by FD.

[Tom Baker]

Flight Design no longer has the firewall blankets, and now says to use the paint. I did this with a CTSW that had not had the firewall blanket installed when they were available. The paint is a pain in the ass to apply, and will take two to three days and three applications to get enough thickness.

That CTSW had a lot of other issues that had been neglected over its life. I don't think the owner or the mechanic who had been working on the airplane had any clue.

[Madhatter]

48 minutes ago, Tom Baker said:

Flight Design no longer has the firewall blankets, and now says to use the paint. I did this with a CTSW that had not had the firewall blanket installed when they were available. The paint is a pain in the ass to apply, and will take two to three days and three applications to get enough thickness.

That CTSW had a lot of other issues that had been neglected over its life. I don't think the owner or the mechanic who had been working on the airplane had any clue.

I think Roger has some blankets 

This is the Ceramic 2000 available at spruce. It's a lot thicker than the FD blanket so you have to make some accommodations for it.