Joseph Berki wrote:

Hi,
        I thought this was discussed before but I found a company at
http://www.cotronics.com that specializes in ceramic type materials.

Some

of these products look like they lend themselves for use in a ceramic
muffler baffle system.  They also have a ceramic blanket good for 3000 F

if

a glass pack style muffler design is possible.  I seem to remember that

the

rotary has a tendency to blow the packing out of the muffler .  I was
thinking along the lines of creating a stainless can with baffles and a
liner out of ceramic materials.  Any ideas?  Thanks for any help.

Joe Berki
Limo EZ

The problem with ceramic muffler packing is not temperature but mechanical
strength.  I tried an Edelbrock RPM series ceramic packed muffler.  Packing
was blown out within a few hours due to the mechanical pounding from the
turbo exhaust port rotary.  Might work longer on the NA ports with
splitters.

Tracy Crook
tcrook@rotaryaviation.com
www.rotaryaviation.com

 
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