Jeff,
Good going.
Although mine covers the whole intake manifold and is set up for the
914. Your copy of the Rotax part is tidy and a lot cheaper than that
overpriced vinyl ester piece Rotax sells.
You may find that if you made yours from Aeropoxy that the edges may get
a little brown around the head, but not too bad. Vinyl ester can take a
little more temperature, but I figure if the lunch boxes on top of the
cylinders of a Jabiru at 300F hold up made from Aeropoxy, it will work
on the rotax.
You have a tri gear, and I can't believe with that big hole behind your
engine frame, that you need this, but let me know how it's working.
Bud
Custom Flight Creations.
----- Original Message -----
From: JEFF ROBERTS<mailto:jeff@rmmm.net>
To: europa-list@matronics.com<mailto:europa-list@matronics.com>
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 8:01 PM
Subject: Europa-List: Cooling Shroud
HI All,
After dealing with the uneven cooling issues under the Europa cowl,
and after looking at how all the new LSA planes are cooling the rotax, I
decided to make a cooling shroud or baffle as rotax calls it. I know
something like this came with some of the Kits but not mine. After
seeing the RV-12 at KOSH I decided to call Lockwood to see what one
would cost. We'll the rotax version was $900 + US dollars. So I got the
clay out and started making one. It turned out quite nice. All the air
---From the right intake will be funneled up a 2 inch scat tube to feed the
thing.
After talking with Jeff B. of Baby Blue fame he thought it would be
nice if we could fashion a mold for anyone else wanting one. So before I
start the process I thought I'd test the waters on this list. Here is a
picture of it. Jeff & I thought if we made such a mold that we could
send it around to others wanting to lay up such a shroud. A mold would
be a lot easier than the process I went through to make this so if you
are interested let me know. Jeff gets first crack at it but we could
send it on from there. All interested parties please respond back and
we'll see what we can do. It seems to me that better and more even
cooling will make a happier engine.
Best Regards,
Jeff R.
A258 - N128LJ / Gold Rush 176 hours and down for the annual, Mod 71
and a lot of others.
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