Re: Ram air setups (long)

From: Jon Steiger (stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 17 1999 - 20:28:13 EDT


On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 N2mopars@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 6/17/99 5:11:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu writes:
>
> << it still sucks air in due
> to the vaccum effect. (Similar principle to drafting behind a semi...)
> >>
>
>
> Not vaccum, but high pressure at the windshield forces the air in.

  Oops; you're right; its a pressure differential due to the varying
airspeeds. There's a a relative low pressure in the engine bay, a
relative high pressure at the base of the windshield, and mother
nature doesn't like that. :-)

                                              -Jon-

  .--- stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu ----------------------------------------.
  | Jon Steiger * AOPA, DoD, EAA, MP Race Team, NMA, SPA, USUA * RP-SEL |
  | '96 Dodge Dakota v8 SLT CC (14.58@93.55), '96 Kolb FireFly 447 |
  `--------------------------- http://www.cs.fredonia.edu/~stei0302/ ---'



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Jun 20 2003 - 12:14:26 EDT