Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #17215
From: Bob White <bob@bob-white.com>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Bruce Turrentine Intake
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:17:21 -0700
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>

Thanks Tom,

I have a Bruce Turrentine 13B with 9.7:1 compression rotors.  I believe it's got the turbo end housings and the NA rotor housings.  There are some photos at:
http://www.rotarywiki.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Engine and if you go to Bruce's web site, There are photos of the engine being built up:
http://rotaryresources.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=gallery&file=index

Mine is the "Hulk" (for some reason).

The TB is 65 mm if I did the math right.

Bob White

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:10:37 -0800 (PST)
Tom <tomtugan@yahoo.com> wrote:

Looks nice Bob.  What motor are you hanging this on and.... what's the bore diameter of that throttle body,  if you don't mind?
 
Thanks
Tom


Bob White <bob@bob-white.com> wrote:

Many months of waiting has finally paid off. I received my Turrentine Intake manifold this evening. I'm going to need to do a little work to it. The throttle body is a Nissan and it looks like some extra stuff was removed. That's OK, but the return spring is still on it and it closes the throttle, so that will have to be rearranged. There is a small port on the side that is about 1/2 closed off when the throttle plate is closed. As soon as the plate opens a little, the port is behind the plate. This doesn't seem to me to be a good location for either the EC2 sensor, or a reference for the fuel regulator. Shouldn't both of those be completely behind the throttle plate at all times? I'm thinking that I should drill a couple of ports right behind the throttle body. One for the EC2 and one for the fuel regulator.

Any comments or opinions would be appreciated.

One note: Bruce has told me that he isn't going to make any more like this. He is going to replace the aluminum plenum with a laid up plenum.
The runners and flange will remain aluminum. This is to reduce the time required to build it.

Bob White

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