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From: "Alex Madsen" <madsena@rose-hulman.edu>
To: "'Rotary motors in aircraft'" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: New Info on Tracy's Renesis Engine conversion
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 20:16:28 -0600
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Hi Bob,
I said it was similar, not the same. I am curious where you got that
picture from. It looks like a nice manifold.

Alex Madsen



-----Original Message-----
From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Bob White
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 6:09 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: New Info on Tracy's Renesis Engine conversion

Hi Alex,

Is that really the same as Tracy's intake?  It looks like the tubes
extending into the plenum is an integral part of his idea.

If it works, maybe Tracy will explain it to us.

Bob White

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 16:38:50 -0600
"Alex Madsen" <madsena@rose-hulman.edu> wrote:

> There are finally pictures of Tracy's new intake manifold design. I
> have been thinking about a similar design in the past few weeks.  It
> is a simple construction that could be made as a single part with
> carbon filbert.  I got the idea for this type of manifold from
> http://www.advancedinductionresearch.com/ when I was researching CF
> intake manifolds. Attached is a conceptual drawing I did a few weeks
> ago. I am very busy finishing my project at work and I will not have
> much time to work on manifolds for 3 weeks. After that I would have
> lots of free time and I will have access to schools machine shop.   
>  
>  
> Alex Madsen
>  
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]
> On Behalf Of Ed Anderson
> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 1:02 PM
> To: Rotary motors in aircraft
> Subject: [FlyRotary] New Info on Tracy's Renesis Engine conversion
>  
> For those of you interested, Tracy or rather Laura has some new info
> posted on the progress of the Renesis engine swap.
>  
> http://www.rotaryaviation.com/renesis_engine.htm
>  
> Note that Tracy is now using the Streamline duct (Bell shaped) for his
> radiator and correctly points out that folks often make the mistake of
> curving the duct outward in that location - just the opposite of what
> you need to do.
>  
> Ed
>  
>  
>  
> Ed Anderson
> RV-6A N494BW Rotary Powered
> Matthews, NC
> 


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