REFLECTOR: Tim England Chevy V6/Water Cooling Video

[Greg Poole]

Sounds like we need to encourage Kurt to produce his own video when he 
validates his particular design...!

Greg.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Balic" <alex157 at direcway.com>
To: "Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list" <reflector at tvbf.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 11:07 AM
Subject: RE: REFLECTOR: Tim England Chevy V6/Water Cooling Video


> Kurt,
> When you get some more time, could you explain the particulars please- I 
> am
> going to use a low drag "Aero" style scoop design- it has a rounded
> triangular opening that tapers to a small vertical edge in the 
> rear-instead
> of trying to just ramp down - supposed to be a lot less drag than the P-51
> style Tim had, and should help keep the air in the prop- curious as to 
> just
> what you have come up with and the particulars from Tim's tape - would
> appreciate a copy of that , can paypal you for the effort, just let me
> know.....
>
> Alex
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org]On
> Behalf Of NMFlyer1 at aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 12:28 PM
> To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
> Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Tim England Chevy V6/Water Cooling Video
>
>
> I have a copy of Tim England's tape, and can make more.
>
> He was a big help to me, as there were some things I wanted to do that he
> explained. There were also some things he did that I wanted to change.
> Consider it improving on some steps he already made.
>
> One thing I noticed is that his Velocity was pretty slow. I believe that 
> the
> pit scoops, the bottom cowl bump (air to the prop) and the belly scoop all
> added up to more drag than usual.
>
> Thanks to Tim, I came up with a design that I believe will improve on his
> work. Time will tell.
>
> Kurt Winker
> 4.3L Aluminum V-6 340 HP
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