I mentioned this to a few people at OSH and they were very interested.
They felt Tracy rotary installation and PSRU looked a little

unprofessional.

Paul Lamar

Peter Cowan/Lexy Cameron wrote:

You shouldn't overlook the huge positive impact of a less than top of the
line  somewhat imperfect installation that works.  It does far more to
convince us average guys without machine shops and unlimited funds that we
can do it too. We wouldn't be where we are today without it.
Peter

That is the other side of the coin but I think that is far outweighed
by the bad cosmetics. I have spoken to many people about this and
the low cost side of the coin point of view is in a small minority.
Very few people are willing to risk their lives on some engine
installation that looks like it just came out of the junk yard.

One person was surprised and amused that Tracy, being in business
as he is, did not even have a cell phone. Yes I know it would
not be useful where Tracy lives but his daughter offered to
rent hers to Tracy for the air shows :)

BTW here is a picture of Tracy wearing a new T shirt and his daughter.
Where can we get one of those nifty T shirts Tracy? :)

Paul Lamar

Tracy should take a week and replace the water plumping with AN hose and 
paint the radiators black. That alone would make a large improvement.
The other thing is the home made look of the intake manifold.
A nice polished aluminum  intake manifold would do wonders for the
cosmetics. I would go so far as to donating an intake manifold casting 
and injector holder runners to the cause.

This has become far more important now that Power Sport is no longer
around with their professional looking $30,000 installations.

Of course Tracy's sales would go up and he would have to spend more
time in front of the machine tools twirling hand wheels. I know he dose
not like to do that and that may be his real motivation for not cleaning
up the cosmetics :)

Paul Lamar
 
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