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The guys with straight pipes (even with a lot of 90 degree
turns) think they work GREAT! Their hearing went bad shortly
after they started flying them : )
Ha! OK, I'll install the muffler :-)
Heck,
if I got rid of the muffler, I'd probably end up tail heavy with all the weight
I've removed from the nose. I finished the stainless heat
shield for the bottom of the plane today, and it's all ready
to rivet in place. I decided to order some stainless from McMaster
Carr to mount the muffler, so I'll finish mounting the muffler next
weekend.
I also
tried to expand a 1.75" .035" 321 stainless pipe today. I need to make it
fit the 2-1/8" hole in the exhaust flange, and there's no way I'm going to
be able to do this. It seems like a lot to stretch a thin wall
pipe, and I was doing this as a test to see if it would
work. Unfortunately, I just can't generate enough force with the
tailpipe expander to do much with it. I used an impact wrench, with about
120 psi of pressure, and the most I could stretch it was maybe 1/16".
I assume a custom exhaust shop could do this, but would the 1-3/4" pipe
expand successfully to be 2-1/8", or would it split? I'll either have to
have it stretched, or buy something pre-stretched, or perhaps make a new exhaust
flange.
Ideas
are welcome.
Cheers,
Rusty
(I don't think I'm missing any EM-2 connectors Tracy)
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