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Am I better off buying the cowl from Vans with the
snorkel out front for extra cooling?
Thanks Greg
As Dave said,
you should have room for a turbo in an RV-8 cowl. I believe Todd even has
his turbo and muffler in his RV-9 cowl. I envy anyone with that much
acreage under the cowl.
Unless you
love building large fiberglass things from scratch, or you plan to put coolers
somewhere other than under the cowl, you'll be far better off to start with a
stock cowl. I'm not sure what you mean by "snorkel out front for extra
cooling", but when I built my RV-8, there were two cowls, depending on which
engine you had. The carb version had a chin scoop for the carb.
The injected version got induction air from above the baffles, so
it had no chin scoop. Since the chin scoop for the carb would almost
certainly not do you much good, I would recommend getting the injected
cowl, with no scoop.
Cheers,
Rusty (wish I
had put a rotary engine on my RV-8)
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