[FC] Interesting Development - Brake MC

[Rad Davis]

Oh yeah *that* little piece of metal.-- I briefly removed the one on the 
right once to drill holes in it and mount my Crane/Allison box there 
(figured that engine cooling air flowing over the back side of the baffle 
would make a good heat sink).  Since the XR700 in question is still ticking 
along after 100+ K miles, I might have been right...

And yes, it definitely helps with the carb icing...

Rad


At 11:42 AM 2/7/2003 -0800, you wrote:

>     These are the sheetmetal plates that go over the forward part of the
>outlet of the air inlet in the engine compartment. If you have big a gaping
>holes for the air to enter the engine compartment, someone has already
>removed the baffles.
>        Bob
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Patten Del R Civ AFRL/PKP" <Del.Patten@kirtland.af.mil>
>To: <corvanatics@corvair.org>
>Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 10:07 AM
>Subject: RE: [FC] Interesting Development - Brake MC
>
>
> >   what baffles are we talking about Bob...don't have my assembly manual
>with
> > me...??
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Diane and Bob Galli [mailto:rdgalli@tcsn.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 10:03 PM
> > To: corvanatics@corvair.org
> > Subject: Re: [FC] Interesting Development - Brake MC
> >
> >
> > Jim Davis wrote:
> >
> > For instance on 12-30-60 the engine compartment side rail
> > > baffles were approved for installation.
> > > Jim Davis
> > >
> >       Many years ago I found out what these baffles were for.
> >          Diane had gone to Northern California on her annual Christmas
>tree
> > run. I had to stay home and work. She called me from Mt. Shasta City, said
> > the GB was running badly. No power. I said "start it and let me hear it
>run"
> > (my hearing was better in those days). I could hear it on the phone,
>sounded
> > OK. She said it is OK now. She went on. Later I figured it was icing.
> >         Then, the thought struck me, the baffles. They are to mix the cold
> > incoming air with the warm air from the engine.  Put the baffles in, never
> > happened again.
> >
> >         Bob
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