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Tony, I haven't looked in detail at what you are doing, but thought I would just let you know what I did on my Long-EZ.
There are several hundred hours of real world experience on this. I don't have any good photos but I threw together a quick sketch in mspaint.
I discarded the stock lower intake manifold, but retained the next section that has the fuel injectors. Chopped off the latter part of that piece, rotated it front to back 180 degrees, and from top to right by 90 degrees, so the injectors are now horizontal in the right wing root area. Then built 4-tube extensions on that and a plenum.
There is a custom 4-tube aluminum extension only about 4 or 5 inches long, using the squished tube method on the engine side, to adapt the engine ports to the hole pattern of the stock lower/upper manifold flange.
I was with P.L. in a bar in Palm Springs in 2001, he does not drink (I was drinking beer).
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Does everyone understand what it is I'm trying to do with this intake tubing or am I speaking greek? I'm so tired of P.L. and his inebriated remarks. I swear he is on a binge right now.
Do we as a rotory community not need this type of lite weight aluminum tubing that is perfectly matched to our ports? I thought one of the big obstacals was our intake manifolds have things changed and I wasn't aware? OR is everyone happy with using a Paul -Port. Which by the way talking to Dave at Mazdatrix revealed several inconsistencies in his P-port reporting.
This whole thing started becasue I can't find a manifold that isn't a chunk of extruded hunk of aluminum that weighs more than my car.
Seems easy enought to just weld four tubes of the correct size to an aluminum plate. and that is it. We can mandral bend them have them straight what ever. I guess I'm surprized by the groups reaction or lack of.
Tony
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