REFLECTOR: Oil cooler construction

[Jorge Bujanda]

Steve,
It will not be much harder later, specially considering your reasons to delay it.  The
factory installs it after joining the fuselage halves.  I bought a Fast Build fuselage and
installed the oil cooler NACA at the factory and the oil cooler and heater duct at home,
both after the fuselage halves had been joined.   See pictures below. 

http://members.dslextreme.com/users/jbujanda/Construction_files/CANOUTLINE.JPG
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/jbujanda/Construction_files/NACAOIL1.JPG
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/jbujanda/Construction_files/NACAOIL2.JPG

My 2 cents

Regards,
Jorge Bujanda
Velocity XL FG 
Palmdale, CA
Website:  http://members.dslextreme.com/users/jbujanda/
 
"Make your best case... not the best case."
"Spare the noise... convince through silence."
                                                                         JB


 -----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On Behalf Of Steve
Goldman
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 6:38 PM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: REFLECTOR: Oil cooler construction

I'm approaching the point where I have enough done on the fuselage 
that I'll be able to join the halves. At this point I haven't built 
the assembly that goes in the nose for the oil cooler. The reason is 
that I would like to use the DeltaHawk engine which doesn't require 
the cooler in the nose.

What I would like to know how feasible it is to delay this until after 
the halves are joined. [I'm not really interested in discussions of 
the feasibility of the DeltaHawk. I've been following them for a long 
time I'm aware of the situation.] It seems that it is doable from the 
cutouts that go in the nose but someone who has actually completed a 
plane ought be able to tell if delaying this work until later will 
make for a lot more work later.

-- 
Steve Goldman
'77 Tiger N28531
Velocity XL5-RG (T-3050hrs)
Pittsboro, NC (9NC8)
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