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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #270 on: October 21, 2007, 04:19:05 PM »
Just curious where is the air intake??
.......also I think your trailer plates have expired,Sum

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at the moment the top edge of the throttle bodies are just through the cowl if you look at the striping shot you can see how close they are to the top of the hoop, we'll be making some sort of hood to sit over them, it 'll spoil the profile a bit.Some halfwit ( er, me) got his sums wrong when he made the plenum for the manifold and made it about 1/2 inch too high...that will change .I'd even thought in the meantime of just using an oval shaped Weber mesh filter to calm the air over the throttles.....

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« Reply #271 on: October 21, 2007, 10:17:20 PM »
at the moment the top edge of the throttle bodies are just through the cowl if you look at the striping shot you can see how close they are to the top of the hoop, we'll be making some sort of hood to sit over them, it 'll spoil the profile a bit.Some halfwit ( er, me) got his sums wrong when he made the plenum for the manifold and made it about 1/2 inch too high...that will change .I'd even thought in the meantime of just using an oval shaped Weber mesh filter to calm the air over the throttles.....

Is this the right way to go?...I know we don't want the pressure up , we don't want the air going at right angles to the throats either...is a scoop that will turn the air down but allow it to flow around the TB's what we want?.....there are louvres behind there so it won't get pressurized......expert opinions requested :wink:

while I'm here , another shot from Sat..this time with the front up....

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #272 on: October 21, 2007, 10:22:11 PM »
we pressurize the air going to the carbs/throttle bodies with an air box every chance we get, although it is only worth about 5-10 MPH...
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #273 on: October 21, 2007, 11:07:58 PM »
we pressurize the air going to the carbs/throttle bodies with an air box every chance we get, although it is only worth about 5-10 MPH...

I agree......you could have the air there separating from the body and not getting to the engine.....................here are some examples of what could be done.......

     

     

     

Maybe Stainless would enlighten us on the air intake on the Bockscar,

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #274 on: October 21, 2007, 11:48:56 PM »
Sum and Doc, As you can see in this section of our "trophy holding team" picture, the air intake is a NACA duct (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NACA_duct).  Properly designed, they present no drag, and are quite effective (if it is easy to paint, it is not working).  We have recorded positive pressure in the air box with the throttle plates in the vertical position. 
What else can I tell you?

sorry, couldn't get the entire pic to fit...
« Last Edit: October 22, 2007, 02:53:19 PM by Stainless1 »
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #275 on: October 22, 2007, 12:22:06 AM »

     

Sum
thanks for the tips on scoops , a NACA might be just the thing for us , now ,I couldn't help but notice , this vehicle lacks something that is a common feature on pretty much every other vehicle , plane or boat bar Tanks and submarines with which it in fact seems to share a common feature :wink:
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #276 on: October 22, 2007, 12:42:58 AM »

 

Sum
thanks for the tips on scoops , a NACA might be just the thing for us , now ,I couldn't help but notice , this vehicle lacks something that is a common feature on pretty much every other vehicle , plane or boat bar Tanks and submarines with which it in fact seems to share a common feature :wink:

Motorcycle streamliner with one as well.
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I would have to dust off a book to know for sure, but my fuzzy memory seems to think that a NACA duct works best in a high pressure zone, which seems to make sense.  I'm sure by the time you dig up enough information to make one you'll find out if my memory is correct or not.

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #277 on: October 22, 2007, 01:33:38 AM »
NACA ducts are pretty simple.  Here are a couple that I put in the hood of a factory turbocharged Alfa Romeo coupe for the Intel engineer down the street from the shop.  I used templates that he provided.

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #278 on: October 22, 2007, 03:47:29 AM »
The NACA duct in the Bockscar is a Boeing design from a B52 bomber, we still hope to give it back to the USAF some day :-D
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #279 on: October 22, 2007, 11:22:21 AM »
The NACA duct in the Bockscar is a Boeing design from a B52 bomber, we still hope to give it back to the USAF some day :-D

And is not from a high pressure zone... a properly designed one creates it's own zone.  Ours is actually salvaged from an incident victim, and seems to work rather well... 
We have had other scoop ideas, but always came back to the one that gave us the initial success...
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« Reply #280 on: October 22, 2007, 11:47:42 AM »
 I like the NACA's in the hood 4BM...  The idea of the NACA duct makes more sense to me as the disturbance to the shape of the car is less , obviously it ain't gonna work if we place it poorly. the "cylinder" of air that a 232 is using at speed is fairly small , our shape is pretty clean..hopefully we can get that air without having to stick something too far out from the car .

The NACA duct in the Bockscar is a Boeing design from a B52 bomber, we still hope to give it back to the USAF some day :-D

And is not from a high pressure zone... a properly designed one creates it's own zone.  Ours is actually salvaged from an incident victim, and seems to work rather well... 
We have had other scoop ideas, but always came back to the one that gave us the initial success...

I've "winged " a couple of overflyers but haven't managed to bring down anything on my plot that had useable ducts on it so I guess we'll have to shell out for some new ones to use. :wink:
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #281 on: October 22, 2007, 12:07:56 PM »
Read the technical stuff on the NACA before you buy, many of the ones on the market are not designed correctly.  We had that experience....
Is there an AAF salvage yard on the island / continent?  They have had a couple of possibilities in the inventory...
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #282 on: October 22, 2007, 12:09:59 PM »
The NACA duct in the Bockscar is a Boeing design from a B52 bomber, we still hope to give it back to the USAF some day :-D


Stainless,

  Nice of you to comment on you NACA duct. I've decided to use one on #72 G/GL and was not sure it was the best way to go. I'll be dumping it directly into a large air box that includes an air cooler exchange. It's good to get information from someone that is in a very successful group!

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #283 on: October 22, 2007, 12:51:23 PM »
Rev,
Don't buy any of the commercially available NACA ducts that you see on NASCAR cars as they are really junk. Carol Smith has the info for building your own NACA duct in his "Engineer to Win" book and the important things are: Locate the duct in an area that has attached air flow, make the edges sharp, make a nice radius on the upper part of the inlet opening. Not hard to make and you can actually make them with some aluminum and epoxy if you can't weld alum. Or do as Stainless suggests find a "real" duct from an airplane and use it.

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #284 on: October 22, 2007, 01:11:29 PM »
Oi Rex
I've got Engineer to Win but none of his others, I don't remember the NACA plans in it ...Yes I can weld Al( the Rev' would beg to differ)so I guess as soon as I can find the relationship formula( cripes , I've got the numbers wrong in that one before) for the NACA ducts somewhere I might have a shot.........I feel a project coming on :evil:

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