Beautiful job, Al. My work is crude by comparison.

In California the dust on the dirt strips can linger in the air long after a take off and when the farmers work the fields near by, the air is full of highly abrasive dust. One of the first things we noticed about Indiana when we moved from CA was how much less dust was in the air. I don't know if the Rotary is more tolerant of this stuff than is a recip but it probably is harmful to some degree. Even in Indiana I think a filter is a good idea. Jerry


On Tuesday, April 12, 2005, at 10:58 AM, Al Gietzen wrote:

 

Paul has a good point about the air filter even if it's absence had nothing to do with the current problem. Sooner or later, something undesirable will be sucked in, especially if one occasionally visits a dirt strip.

 

I was thinking along the same line as Jerry, and decided to put a screen in the induction air path.  My ram scoop is above the wing on Velocity, so hopefully no hard chunks are ever going to get in there; but the screen will insure nothing very large.  The screen is from a SS kitchen strainer, and is in the largest diameter section of the intake plenum at the scat hose connection (see attached pics).

 

Al

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