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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Manifold Thoughts - 6 to 4 ports
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:13:18 -0500
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Ernest,

what other list would that be?
If it is about Rotaries, I am sure EVERYONE wants to know!!

Thanks,
Thomas J.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ernest Christley" <echristley@nc.rr.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 12:30 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Manifold Thoughts - 6 to 4 ports


> Dale Rogers wrote:
>
> >Ernest,
> >
> >   You wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Bill, if you're going to eliminate all the 'stuff' and the port will
> >>always be open, why not remove the wall between the side ports and make
> >>them one?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >   After reading Paul Yaw's site, specifically this page:
> >
> >http://www.yawpower.com/Flow%20Testing.html
> >
> >I wouldn't want to do that without something to verify the
> >flow characteristics.  I was amazed at how easy is was to
> >make things worse by making them bigger.
> >
> >Dale R.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> I agree, Dale.  In place of actual testing (which will require I build a
> flow bench, find some place to put it, and then actually learn how to
> use it), I would accept someone knowledgable saying that it is a good
> idea.  I've been studying this idea for a while.  Looking through
> another list, there is a poster named "Judge Ito" that everyone seems to
> revere for his porting prowess.  His take on opening up and combining
> the 6 to make it only 4 ports would give it the top end power of a
> peripheal port, but would severely compromise the low end power and
> idle.  As Bill alluded to earlier, who cares.
>
> I'm still building fuselage ribs, but in a few weeks I'll be digging a
> lot harder to nail down this will actually work, as I begin to build an
> intake manifold.
>
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