Aerocarb questions

[Bryan_Cotton]

@mdickler1

wasn’t even sealing against the cowling on the back fence and there are lots of gaps in the transition to the super tin. I’m working through the kinks. When

Baffles are a great thing to work on perfecting. Here is a thread I wrote:

Baffle optomizations

I have a bunch to post on this topic, But working out picture posting, so I’m going to start off small. Here is a picture of the super tin and how crappy of a job it does forcing the air around the heads, front and rear. [left rear baffle before] So in this next picture, I’ve made a baffle that forces the air through the fins, and makes it turn the corner and exit through the bottom cooling fins. [left rear baffle after] I drilled a hole in the cooling fins, and riveted a little piece of …

The other thing is to make sure your castings have been cleaned up.

VW head quality issues

Last fall I picked up a spare AeroVee. A few weeks ago I was having problems with valves and I pulled a head off the spare motor. This motor had Empi heads from Sonex and they had about 20 hours on them. As I started looking at the seats and valves, they were really not great. I was considering a head swap but held off. We know the purpose of the hobby is to buy tools. So I ended buying a Neway valve seat cutting set. I’ll talk more about that over in the tools section. But in playing with the …