Pietenpol-List: Model A Carb heat
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:09 pm
Original Posted By: "walt evans"
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Model A Carb heatDan: I think the loss of power with carb heat on all the time is a mootpoint, because from all I have been told, the alternative is that theFord will freeze up and die without it. Remember the Oldsmobile in themovie Christmas story? It would freeze up driving on the equator inJuly! Evidently so does the A. Remember in the car the intake manifoldis bolted directly to the exhaust manifold for heat to transfer to theintake/carb. I think if you had an on-off control it would be in the'on' all the time any way, so just save the weight and leave the controloff. Instead of steel wool in the heat muff, I am going to wrap a screendoor around the pipe and enclose it with the carb heat shroud. I'vealso seen pictures of the A with a metal schroud in front of thevertical part of the intake above the carb. to where the manifoldbranches off to the cyls. It was to keep the prop blast off that part ofthe intake. I never heard how that worked out. Leon S. In Ks. where it's67deg. today. Still would need carb. heat if I were fying today.________________________________________________________________________________Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:23:49 -0500
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Model A Carb heatDan: I think the loss of power with carb heat on all the time is a mootpoint, because from all I have been told, the alternative is that theFord will freeze up and die without it. Remember the Oldsmobile in themovie Christmas story? It would freeze up driving on the equator inJuly! Evidently so does the A. Remember in the car the intake manifoldis bolted directly to the exhaust manifold for heat to transfer to theintake/carb. I think if you had an on-off control it would be in the'on' all the time any way, so just save the weight and leave the controloff. Instead of steel wool in the heat muff, I am going to wrap a screendoor around the pipe and enclose it with the carb heat shroud. I'vealso seen pictures of the A with a metal schroud in front of thevertical part of the intake above the carb. to where the manifoldbranches off to the cyls. It was to keep the prop blast off that part ofthe intake. I never heard how that worked out. Leon S. In Ks. where it's67deg. today. Still would need carb. heat if I were fying today.________________________________________________________________________________Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:23:49 -0500