X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:23:46 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from web60025.mail.yahoo.com ([209.73.178.73] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2c1) with SMTP id 2498253 for lml@lancaironline.net; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:49:12 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=209.73.178.73; envelope-from=mattreeves@yahoo.com Received: (qmail 35210 invoked by uid 60001); 20 Nov 2007 22:48:36 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=gApQBiGnpYwEqMF+1tcnwKUWMNaj9JpyjttYPWKpJ9Ren+3Y5pRBC3CJ81gDZjP9vgpZma00XjPvRiyBgx9TTdmrHsueYTETw1+mNM4lfg37cxAXxbrvoJNe5pW/0IptK6j07rp5EOqH/9+5gZTYalG4YgBr907kWQuLgQMjshY=; X-YMail-OSG: 6eWkpNwVM1lhnHj7IUy08FwwpUNWoTCWNq_6Bx3mF0Ref6gMtTfNs.GdELQ4VyGFV_cTKRJycuJLGma4wNdhUWrD63XpPRmrVCpb8VhT5PvXFm2tYY9q3ilZzrAjAj8- Received: from [24.39.231.241] by web60025.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:48:35 PST X-Original-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:48:35 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Reeves Subject: Re: [LML] Cowling Air Intake X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1789233940-1195598915=:33240" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Original-Message-ID: <971360.33240.qm@web60025.mail.yahoo.com> --0-1789233940-1195598915=:33240 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Good idea. Thanks Larry. I will do the same. Matt lhenney@charter.net wrote: Matt, The real rain issue is not engine related. It is wing leading edge abrasion that causes me to slow down and avoid downpours. The engine can handle quite a lot of water. The water merely displaces some of your fuel/air mixture causing an irrelevant reduction in power. Regarding intakes, I'm on the road so can't photo. I do however strongly encourage a sound connection from cowl entry into the carb or servo. I may be the exception however as I've seen many installations that allow leakage. The question here is lost ram rise versus ease of cowl removal. I built a little access panel so I could clamp both ends of my ram air hose. It's of low stakes to many. Larry Henney N360LH -- For archives and unsub http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/lml/List.html --------------------------------- Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. --0-1789233940-1195598915=:33240 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Good idea.  Thanks Larry.
 
I will do the same.
 
Matt

lhenney@charter.net wrote:
Matt,

The real rain issue is not engine related. It is wing leading edge abrasion that causes me to slow down and avoid downpours.

The engine can handle quite a lot of water. The water merely displaces some of your fuel/air mixture causing an irrelevant reduction in power.

Regarding intakes, I'm on the road so can't photo. I do however strongly encourage a sound connection from cowl entry into the carb or servo. I may be the exception however as I've seen many installations that allow leakage. The question here is lost ram rise versus ease of cowl removal. I built a little access panel so I could clamp both ends of my ram air hose. It's of low stakes to many.

Larry Henney
N360LH

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