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Hi, Rusty....I just checked out Tracy's website and his discussion regarding the scat hose.It looks like he had a pretty long hose running from the intake manifold, behind the engine, then back towards the nose of the aircraft, My application will be a short hose (approximately 10 inches) traveling away from the engine into the wing root and NACA duct. I'm going to give it a try. I can always replace it with a fiberglass tube if necessary. Thanks for the input. Paul Conner

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From: Russell Duffy

To: Rotary motors in aircraft

Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 10:40 PM

Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: SQ2000 flying again

Hi, Tracy....thanks for the heads up....any more info would be appreciated....was it a long scat tube, and was it 3 inch diameter? I assume you could not ingest enough air? Thanks for any more info you can provide. Paul Conner

I recall Tracy saying that there was an almost unbelievable increase in air temp when using the scat/sceet/whatever hose. I'm still using such a hose, and eventually will get around to putting temp sensors in each end. It might be just as easy to make a new fiberglass (ack, gasp, cough) tube instead. I think breaking in the engine will gain more power than that for me now though.

Cheers,

Rusty