Rusty,
That is clearly the intake I sent you. I had not Idea that it didn't fit. I guess I just never looked that closely. On the other hand, I can't believe I would have missed a miss-match that big. I also can't believe someone would manufacture an intake specifically for an engine but not bother to get the ports the right size. Are you very sure that you have everything right side up and orientation?
I'll take the intake back if you don't like it, but I wouldn't use JB weld.
Regards,
David Leonard
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Greetings,
I was looking at the latest
intake today, and noticed that the secondary ports on the intake are quite a bit
taller than the ones on the engine itself. Attached is a picture that
shows the intake gasket, thought the intake runner to give you some idea of what
the size difference is. The top of the runner is fine, but the bottom, as
shown in the picture, is off by about half and inch.
The question is- how many
people would feel comfortable filling this in with epoxy putty, JB Weld, or
similar glue? It makes me nervous, but it would be such a large
piece, that it couldn't go through the port if it broke, unless it broke
into pieces. Obviously, the surface would be cleaned, and
roughed up to make the best adhesion. What do you
think?
BTW- I'm off for 3
weeks, and my goal is to have the engine running, and perhaps even have the
plane back in the air with the rev-2 configuration by the end of that
time.
Cheers,
Rusty (time to let go of
my EM-2 now Tracy <g>)
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