Maybe you can send me the photos of your system and I can forward to the man who built the Ellison Carb. Tom McNeely. His the Guru at our airport. He help design and build the Ellison. He might be able to help you.
Lee Van Dyke ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Heath" <da...@windstream.net> To: "'KRnet'" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 3:39 AM Subject: KR> Intake Manifold on Black Bird Well, boys and girls. It is going to be another beautiful weekend and the Black Bird is officially grounded until I find a solution for this intake problem. I discussed it with several people at Corvair College and the net of those discussions was that I had to do something. I sent pics of my system to Ellison, and they told me "your serpentine intake manifold forces the wet mixture to negotiate two 90 degree turns before arriving at the four into one distribution section. Each of these 90 degree bends function as a very efficient liquid separator, causing most of the atomized fuel emerging from the TBI to be transformed into liquid puddles which migrate to the cylinders as moving slugs of liquid fuel. The liquid slugs are ingested randomly and unevenly by individual cylinders, causing the sputtering". Therefore, I would be a fool to not do something to change that. Jim Brewer has a rear drive VW with almost the same setup as mine, except that he has room to have a straight run from the intake plenum, to the Ellison, and he has a very smooth running engine. I do not have the luxury of that kind of room on top of the engine, so I am going to have to move it back down to the underside, as most all others are. If anyone has a "single tube" to the dual ports, type of intake that they don't need, I am interested. The one I really like is the one that AeroVee puts on their heads, but they won't sell it to you unless you have their engine, which I think sucks a bit. I am thinking of chopping up the one that I have to make a single tube input to the dual port, but that is a lot of work, and I hate to mess up an intake that a turbo installation could modify for their use. ( it started life as a Revmaster turbo intake ) Anyway, more to come, and when I solve this intake issue for good, I will be off to the races. PS: My Vair did not make it to College due to some last minute issues with the cylinders that were delivered to me. More on that next year. Daniel R. Heath da...@windstream.net See N64KR at <http://krbuilder.org/> http://KRBuilder.org - Then click on the pics See you at the 2010 - KR Gathering in Richmond, Ky - I39 _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
