Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #51629
From: Tracy Crook <tracy@rotaryaviation.com>
Sender: <rwstracy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] intake design
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 16:28:04 -0400
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
I think you violated most all the intake rules on this one.
The divider might help mixture distribution.
A smooth transition would be better for performance.
I don't see much of a bell mouth at the end of those runners either.

Radical transitions are rarely a good thing in an intake system.

Tracy

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 4:09 PM, kevin lane <n3773@comcast.net> wrote:
Hi kevin,
   I'm going on a old memory that may be wrong but I seem to remember a picture of your manifold that looked like the two Webber barrels dumped into a common chamber.  If that is true, you should start over and keep the barrels separate, I.e., one to each rotor.  Even if this is not the reason for your mixture mismatch now it is the only way to go.

Tracy 
 
 
here is my intake.  the bolts and silicon are gone because I had it welded.  should I simply cut it in half and weld a divider plate down the middle or devise something else?  the plenum box was the only easy transition I could come up with while keeping runner lengths optimal.  I guessed that it would create a good reflective wave also since the cross-section transition is radical.
 
KevinLane Carpentry
www.KevinLaneCarpentry.com

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