[FC] BAFFLE PLATES

[Kent Sullivan]

The main thing with these baffles is it prevents carb icing in cold weather. A long-time FC owner in our club drove his Rampside into the mountains on a cold day without the plates and iced over. He did it again later with the baffles and all was well.

--Kent
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Paul M. Steinberg" <noahsarkinc@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: corvanatics@corvair.org
Date:  Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:50:08 -0500

>Does it do anything to performance if you don't remove them for the warmer
>months of driving?  Does the owners manual refer to removing them like they do
>with the Spyder & Corsa?  thanks Paul in CT
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: VairMech@aol.com
>  To: corvanatics@corvair.org
>  Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 1:42 PM
>  Subject: Re: [FC] BAFFLE PLATES
>
>
>  In a message dated 2/10/2003 10:04:23 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>  Del.Patten@kirtland.af.mil writes:
>
>  >  Are those the triangular doohickeys, Ken??  And on both sides with the
>  > driver's side having the regulator mounted on it?
>  >
>
>     They are more trapezoidal than anything, but installed they look kind of
>  triangle-ish. I am not sure that the regulator would/should be mounted on
>one
>  because they are removable and like the cars only supposed to be installed
>in
>  cold weather although many people leave them in all the time.
>     Ken Hand
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