X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com X-SpamCatcher-Score: 10 [X] Return-Path: Received: from fed1rmmtao104.cox.net ([68.230.241.42] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.9) with ESMTP id 2062190 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 22 May 2007 21:46:59 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=68.230.241.42; envelope-from=tonyslongez@cox.net Received: from fed1rmimpo01.cox.net ([70.169.32.71]) by fed1rmmtao104.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.05.02.00 201-2174-114-20060621) with ESMTP id <20070523014620.ZNYD15717.fed1rmmtao104.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 21:46:20 -0400 Received: from fed1wml08.mgt.cox.net ([172.18.180.10]) by fed1rmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id 2RmL1X00p0DrMWL0000000; Tue, 22 May 2007 21:46:20 -0400 Received: from 72.193.240.142 by webmail.west.cox.net; Tue, 22 May 2007 21:46:20 -0400 Message-ID: <3319694.1179884781133.JavaMail.root@fed1wml08.mgt.cox.net> Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 18:46:21 -0700 From: To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Manifold intake tubes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_60586_20168886.1179884780969" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Sensitivity: Normal ------=_Part_60586_20168886.1179884780969 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable O.k. Tell me what you guys think. I found a company here in the U.S. that can ex= trude custom shapes, I sent them the profile for the oval intake ports. The= minimum order is very reasonable1 the cost to have the profile tool made i= s very reasonable1. I asked them about a company that could mandrel bend th= is oval tubing and they turned me to a company they deal with that is very = close by. I'm waiting to here back from them with a quote. I want to have t= he extrusion bent from an oval into a round, also I think the bend should l= ook more like what mistral has done with there manifold allowing the intake= tubes to have a lower profile. The idea is to have a very lite manifold, s= o the tubing will have a .065 wall, material is 6061. I could sell this oval = tubing to anyone wishing to make there own lite weight manifold. Does anyon= e see a problem with this before I lay down my money. here is a link of the= kind of bend I'm referring to. Dr. Gas makes these for NASCAR out of steel= , but just to give an idea of what is possible. www.drgas.com=C2=A0 click on the oval tubing catalog. Tony :-) (Someone found the HTML editor) (Y) 1(obviously the word "reasonable" has many diffrent definitions to many peo= ple. so, reasonable for me) ;-) ------=_Part_60586_20168886.1179884780969 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

O.k.
Tell me what you guys think. I found a company here in the U.S. that can extrude custom shapes, I sent them the profile for the oval intake ports. The minimum order is very reasonable1 the cost to have the profile tool made is very reasonable1. I asked them about a company that could mandrel bend this oval tubing and they turned me to a company they deal with that is very close by. I'm waiting to here back from them with a quote. I want to have the extrusion bent from an oval into a round, also I think the bend should look more like what mistral has done with there manifold allowing the intake tubes to have a lower profile. The idea is to have a very lite manifold, so
the tubing will have a .065 wall, material is 6061. I could sell this oval tubing to anyone wishing to make there own lite weight manifold. Does anyone see a problem with this before I lay down my money. here is a link of the kind of bend I'm referring to. Dr. Gas makes these for NASCAR out of steel, but just to give an idea of what is possible. www.drgas.com 
click on the oval tubing catalog.

Tony:-)

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1(obviously the word "reasonable" has many diffrent definitions to many people. so, reasonable for me);-)

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