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Jerry, I didn't post that message to discourage you, just FYI. The idea that you had is fine. The situation is like pulling carb heat during a decent. (everybody remembers to do that on their carbureted planes right?) Some intake preheat will help a NA engine. A bit of trivia, when the "Norton" wankel was first built, (AT BSA!) they passed the intake air through the rotors prior to putting it into the carbs to improve efficiency. I really like the high pressure system injecting into the combustion chamber. With that system eventually you could lose the throttle body altogether. Better efficiency would result. Ask Rolf about throttling losses sometime.
Bill Jepson
In a message dated 1/22/2005 3:27:42 PM Pacific Standard Time, j-winddesigns@thegrid.net writes:
Bill, I have had a day to think about this and suddenly the sun is
shining again. I can route hot air from the cool tube over the intake
at the sweep. Not only can I respond to icing conditions but with a
temp prob on the runner, it may be possible to control the runner temp
so as to just pre-heat the mix a bit for better combustion. It will be
fun to fine tune with this feature when cruising along with nothing
else to do. jerry
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