Return-Path: Received: from [24.25.9.101] (HELO ms-smtp-02-eri0.southeast.rr.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.6) with ESMTP id 2703748 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:24:21 -0500 Received: from nc.rr.com (cpe-024-211-190-025.nc.rr.com [24.211.190.25]) by ms-smtp-02-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h9V2OIR8011039 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:24:19 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3FA1C592.2050005@nc.rr.com> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:14:42 -0500 From: Ernest Christley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Intake manifold References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Ed Anderson wrote: > > > > Hm... I still don't see the difference from flowing water that > mysteriously won't split evenly at the Y. > Because the water wasn't splitting at a Y. It is more like this: ----------RAD1---------- / \ --------- ------------------ \ / ---------RAD2----------- If the flow resistance aren't equal, one radiator will absorb flow until it's resistance equals the other. In the case of the intakes, the air gets sucked in and then dissappears. If air didn't flow down the second tube, there'd be a vacuum. -- http://www.ernest.isa-geek.org/ "Ignorance is mankinds normal state, alleviated by information and experience." Veeduber