[FC] Those blame baffles

[James Davis]

Gad.  Just go out to your FC's and look at the right and left rear sides of 
the engine compartment.  There should be plates attached to the engine 
compartment sheet metal near where the frame rails come down to the rear 
engine cross mount rail.  If there no plates blocking  1/2 of the cooling 
air openings on the sides, then they are missing.  If there are two 4 x 6 
inch plates attached with clamps, then you have them.  It was just an 
example of what can be found in the assembly manuals. They are only 
effective if you drive your FC in temperatures below 40 degrees and the 
relative humidly is high.  The most severe carb icing condition is, on the 
interstate, in a driving rain, at 34 degrees with a 140 hp engine.  Below 
30 degrees there is usually not enough water in the air to cause carb 
icing.   If the temp is above 40 degrees then the fuel vaporization in the 
carb will not lower the temperature to the freezing point.

I have a set in the shop I will take pictures of and e-mail to you 
individually upon request, tomorrow.
Jim Davis

At 05:30 PM 2/7/2003 -0500, Paul M. Steinberg wrote:
>Could you please post the address for the pictures??? the system is deleting
>the pictures themselves...... thanks Paul
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: N2VZD@aol.com
>   To: corvanatics@corvair.org
>   Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 5:20 PM
>   Subject: Re: [FC] Interesting Development - Brake MC
>
>
>   i (embarassingly)  misposted photos of the baffles to the group in reply to
>   someone.i deleated the original too soon.  so i am guessing you may be the
>   one??  it was a bob  and i feel like a boob!...here are photos of 
> baffles on
>   my rampy(63)  regards tim colson