Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 8:18
PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] oil cooler scoop
area?
Greetings,
As I grind through the
rev-2 details, I still need to come up with a place, for the oil cooler.
It will have to go on the bottom of the cowl, and I don't see any way to use
the stock carb scoop that's already down there (only 7 cu in inlet), so I'll
have to get rid of that, and come up with a new scoop. Anyway, I was
wondering what the ballpark size of the scoop should be.
Each cowl cheek inlet is
about 24 cu in, so logic would suggest that I start with the same size for oil
cooler. The cooler will likely be mounted very close to the cowl
bottom (to get away from the exhaust pipe above) so the ducting will
primarily be built into the scoop. Any ballpark figures for
the inlet will be appreciated.
Cheers,
Rusty (lightened the
motor mount today)
You've got it in the
right ball park, Rusty. I also eliminate the stock cowl air intake
and put my oil scoop there. See my oil scoop, it is 10.5" wide and
averages 2 .5" high for around 26 square inches. An Aussie, Ian ,appears
to get away with a bit smaller inlet (his the white bird). I suggest
making the bottom lip with a bit of a smooth airfoil like entrance to ensure
that when you have the nose up in a climb that air will still be induced to
flow around the lip and into your scoop.
Ed