Subject: Manifold Prototype FAQs
From: ACRE NL
Date: 3/16/2002, 10:01 PM


Delbert Johnson wrote:

I would be interested in a manifold if the bosses are added for
at least the
secondary (outer) injectors.  I'm not installing a turbo
charger and from
what I have read, it is best to inject the fuel near the engine block
because of condensation problems in the intake runners.  It
might also be
better to move the primary injectors onto the manifold because
the current
location (on the engine block) probably will interfere with the intake
runners. Is this (current primary injector location on a 13B
turbo engine) a
potential problem with routing the runners?

Delbert Johnson


Condensation does not apply to a quasi closed loop fuel injection system.
Any deposits of fuel in the intake runners eventually evaporates
and finds
its why into the engine eventually. It does not just disappear.
In fact this is
the reason you get better BSFC with the injectors on the beginning of the
runners as the fuel gets a better chance of mixing well with the air.

We have had two in-flight fires so far with fuel injectors on the hot
side of the engine. Furthermore a small pin hole leak in a 40 psi fuel
injection system can sufficiently mix fuel with air creating an
explosive mixture.

If the airplane does not actually blow up an in-flight fire is one of the
worst things that can happen to you as you cannot always get the
airplane on the
ground within seconds to save your life unlike stopping a car and
jumping out.
It is not a nice way to die.


Ok, then count me on buying one out of the first batch.
Thanks!

Delbert Johnson

 
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