Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #24221
From: Jim Sower <canarder@frontiernet.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Fuel Injector Position (was Re: Makingprogress on Chris n Dave's Velocity Engine)
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:18:54 -0500
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
But wouldn't that be true of ANY injectors placed a significant distance from the block?  I think carb ice is pretty much always associated with fuel sprayed into a venturi, and the injectors in our application are always downstream of the "venturi" formed by the partially open throttle.
I wouldn't worry ... Jim S.

david mccandless wrote:

    On PL's recent PP dyno run, he stated that with the injectors
    placed near the entry of the runners, there was considerable
    evaporative cooling taking place and as the tubes were running
    very cold VE should be good. The worry to me here is that with the
    TB at the other end of the runner,ie close to the port, there is a
    real risk of ice build up on the throttle body butterfly. The old
    bugbear of carb ice is back. FWIW, Dave McC


    since the

        ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Jerry Hey
                 based on Paul Lamar's current p port testing there is no
        problem with placing the injectors at the far end of the
        runners. This is also backed up by an article on the internet
        (How to Fabricate an Intake Manifold) The idle issue is not
        with injector location but rather with butterfly location.


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