Jim, I am advocating ram air with no filter and also, as an alternate source, filtered air from under the cowl. Bugs would have a hard time messing up either one. Jerry



On Tuesday, April 12, 2005, at 03:21 PM, James Maher wrote:

One situation that I can think of, that is very likely to occur would be flying into a swarm of bugs. Even a coarse screen such as Al has installed could
easily become clogged with dead bugs choking off all intake air and causing the engine to stop running. That swarm of bugs without the screen would in all likelyhood be ingested and spit out through the exhaust without so much as a hiccup by the engine. Just playing devils advocate. :o)
Jim

Jerry Hey <jerryhey@earthlink.net> wrote:

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This is kind of a weird
topic to me as I can't think of any reason to not protect the engine
with a filter.

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