X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from mail02.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.183] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.4) with ESMTPS id 1000977 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:56:16 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=211.29.132.183; envelope-from=lendich@optusnet.com.au Received: from george (d220-236-0-190.dsl.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.236.0.190]) by mail02.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j5DMtRbu023138 for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 08:55:28 +1000 Message-ID: <009401c5706b$bc321ea0$be00ecdc@george> From: "George Lendich" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" References: Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Manifold Thoughts - 6 to 4 ports Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:00:46 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 . 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. Ernest, I would have to agree entirely - so why not make it real simple and make a PP. George ( down under)