X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.116] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.10) with ESMTP id 2183952 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:39:31 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=204.127.131.116; envelope-from=keltro@att.net Received: from mwebmail36.att.net ([204.127.135.75]) by worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc12) with SMTP id <2007071801385611200daml3e>; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:38:56 +0000 Received: from [64.250.200.22] by mwebmail36.att.net; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:38:55 +0000 From: keltro@att.net (Kelly Troyer) To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Subject: Reluctor wheel for Chrysler pickup Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:38:55 +0000 Message-Id: <071820070138.20328.469D6F2D000D86A200004F682160466648019D9B040A05@att.net> X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (Mar 24 2007) X-Authenticated-Sender: a2VsdHJvQGF0dC5uZXQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_20328_1184722735_0" --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_20328_1184722735_0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lynn, Did you happen to find that that pulley with the home made reluctor wheel........Weaker minds would like to see it !! -- Kelly Troyer "Dyke Delta"_13B ROTARY Engine "RWS"_RD1C/EC2/EM2 "Mistral"_Backplate/Oil Manifold -------------- Original message from Lehanover@aol.com: -------------- A reluctor is anything use to upset the flux field around the coil on the pickup coil. The Chrysler style pickups are biased by a built in magnet. So the reluctor need not be magnetized in order to work. If you use a distributor you can mechanically distribute the trailing ignition which is required. Or, For crank triggered: If you fire both leading and trailing in each housing at the same time, then you need two pickups 180 apart, but only one reluctor. The reluctor can be a steel pin sticking out of a disc. Or a screw sticking out of a front pulley. One pickup fires both plugs in the front housing, and the other pickup fires both plugs in the rear housing. You use double ended coils, or two coils, one for each plug, if you like. This avoids the need to distribute the trailing ignition with some other mechanism. I used an early front pulley with the 4 bolt holes. I built a thick aluminum disc. At the edge of the disc I drilled a hole a bit smaller than a 10 penny nail. I drove the nail through the disc and trimmed off the excess. I reduced the diameter of the disc until about 1/3 of the nail as exposed. 2 pickups one reluctor. The pickups can drive a MSD or a Chrysler amplifier. (you would need two). This works so well it is amazing. Put a timing light on it and it looks like the engine is not running. I added a Mr Gasket degree wheel over the disc for timing adjustments. Very nice piece I must say. My camera bought the farm last night. If I can find that crank pulley I will publish a picture, with a new camera. Or I can draw a picture.............. Lynn E. Hanover See what's free at AOL.com. --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_20328_1184722735_0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Lynn,

Did you happen to find that that pulley with the home made reluctor

wheel........Weaker minds would like to see it !!

--
Kelly Troyer
"Dyke Delta"_13B ROTARY Engine
"RWS"_RD1C/EC2/EM2
"Mistral"_Backplate/Oil Manifold

-------------- Original message from Lehanover@aol.com: --------------

A reluctor is anything use to upset the flux field around the coil on the pickup coil. The Chrysler style pickups are biased by a built in magnet. So the reluctor need not be magnetized in order to work.

If you use a distributor you can mechanically distribute the trailing ignition which is required.

Or,

For crank triggered:

If you fire both leading and trailing in each housing at the same time, then you need two pickups 180 apart, but only one reluctor. The reluctor can be a steel pin sticking out of a disc. Or a screw sticking out of a front pulley. One pickup fires both plugs in the front housing, and the other pickup fires both plugs in the rear housing. You use double ended coils, or two coils, one for each plug, if you like.

This avoids the need to distribute the trailing ignition with some other mechanism.

I used an early front pulley with the 4 bolt holes. I built a thick aluminum disc. At the edge of the disc I drilled a hole a bit smaller than a 10 penny nail. I drove the nail through the disc and trimmed off the excess. I reduced the diameter of the disc until about 1/3 of the nail as exposed. 2 pickups one reluctor. The pickups can drive a MSD or a Chrysler amplifier.

(you would need two).

This works so well it is amazing. Put a timing light on it and it looks like the engine is not running.

I added a Mr Gasket degree wheel over the disc for timing adjustments. Very nice piece I must say. My camera bought the farm last night. If I can find that crank pulley I will publish a picture, with a new camera.

Or I can draw a picture..............

Lynn E. Hanover

See what's free at AOL.com.

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