REFLECTOR: Low CHTs

[Darrell & Nora Kufalk]

I took this picture at Sun-N-Fun back in 2004.  Looks like a good design.
Aircraft number was N98CU which is currently registered to a Charles B.
Ufkes of Ocala, Florida.

Anybody know him?

Darrell





-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of John Dibble
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 11:50 AM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: REFLECTOR: Low CHTs

This time of year my CHTs are low and my oil temp is also, making it
difficult to heat
the cabin.  I'm thinking of putting butterfly valves in the engine cooling
inlets,
similar to what is in my engine intake air for carbureator heat.  Rather
than run
cables, I'm thinking of using a bi-metallic spring, like is used for
automatic chokes
on cars to open and close the valves.  Ideally the spring would work off of
CHT, but I
think this will be to complicated, so I think using OAT would be more
practical.
Any thoughts whether this is a good idea?

John

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