Author: "Roy Sears" <Roysears@...> Time: Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:55 am PDT Link
Fitting the FAB air box to our RV7a q/b with a new, normally aspirated
O360 supplied by Vans. We seem to have an interference issue between
the fibreglass bottom of the air box coming into contact with the nose
leg, in fact it is hard up against it. The top plate of the air box is
positioned correctly, if we moved it forward then the filter would
interfere with the drain plug assembly on the carb. The only way that
we can get round this is to cut a slanting slot out of the fibreglass
so that it will fit around the nose leg and then to re-fibreglass the
slot so as to make a concave indentation in the air box bottom. Has
anyone else had this problem?
Roy(UK)
Van's Air Force - World Wide Wing
www.vansaircraft.net
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Author: Phil Birkelbach <phil@...> Time: Mon Jul 25, 2005 2:56 pm PDT Link
I think I read in the plans somewhere that you may have to cut the FAB
to clear the nose gear. I know that I have seen it done somewhere. I
have no experience in this area because the extra wheel is on the other
end of my plane. :-)
Godspeed,
Phil Birkelbach - Houston Texas
RV-7 N727WB - Finishing Up
http://www.myrv7.com
Roy Sears wrote:
>Fitting the FAB air box to our RV7a q/b with a new, normally aspirated
>O360 supplied by Vans. We seem to have an interference issue between
>the fibreglass bottom of the air box coming into contact with the nose
>leg, in fact it is hard up against it. The top plate of the air box is
>positioned correctly, if we moved it forward then the filter would
>interfere with the drain plug assembly on the carb. The only way that
>we can get round this is to cut a slanting slot out of the fibreglass
>so that it will fit around the nose leg and then to re-fibreglass the
>slot so as to make a concave indentation in the air box bottom. Has
>anyone else had this problem?
>Roy(UK)
>Van's Air Force - World Wide Wing
>www.vansaircraft.net
>Yahoo! Groups Links
Van's Air Force - World Wide Wing
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Author: "Randy Stisser" <rsfarm@...> Time: Mon Jul 25, 2005 2:56 pm PDT Link
Roy
I had the same problem. I cut and reglassed to allow for the gearleg.
After I was done I read that you can heat the fiberglass with a heat gun and
just make an impression with a pipe. Might be worth looking into. Randy
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From: "Roy Sears" <Roysears@aol.com>
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Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 12:11 PM
Subject: [RV7Yahoo] AIRBOX
> Fitting the FAB air box to our RV7a q/b with a new, normally aspirated
> O360 supplied by Vans. We seem to have an interference issue between
> the fibreglass bottom of the air box coming into contact with the nose
> leg, in fact it is hard up against it. The top plate of the air box is
> positioned correctly, if we moved it forward then the filter would
> interfere with the drain plug assembly on the carb. The only way that
> we can get round this is to cut a slanting slot out of the fibreglass
> so that it will fit around the nose leg and then to re-fibreglass the
> slot so as to make a concave indentation in the air box bottom. Has
> anyone else had this problem?
> Roy(UK)
> Van's Air Force - World Wide Wing
> www.vansaircraft.net
> Yahoo! Groups Links
Van's Air Force - World Wide Wing
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