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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: SW Cheese Country
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The Cobra uses 5 quarts and I use 20-50 in that. What I really need is a baffle or two in the sump so that when the oil is hot it doesn't slosh out of the sump on a hard pull. I need one in the fuel tank also. If I am down to 1/3rd tank I will run the carb empty by third gear from a standing start. The tank does have an angle if the front is left it would be similar to this: _/ but at a lesser angle.
I have thought about cutting the tank open to put baffles there, but it is aluminum. Were it steel it would have been done long ago, but as I can live with it since it doesn't happen often I have just put it off. I do need a road race oil pan, especially if I put the other block together one day. That will take me from about 6# per pony to 4.8#. That would mean 10s easy in the 1/4 if I ever went to the drag strip.
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Brent
The X15 was the only aircraft I flew where I was glad the engine quit. - Milt Thompson.
"Don't get so caught up in your right to dissent that you forget your obligation to contribute." Mrs. James to her son Chappie.
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