You might be able to use an air cleaner and the cold air duct from a Bluebird. Go to a wreckers to see how it is fitted. I think it will still fit onto your carby.
Kris. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 1:02 PM Subject: Re: carburettor and induction questions > If your that picky about how much a belt spinning a fan is going to > reduce power output, might want to remove your alternator too, and just > chage your battery of a night :) > > As for the fan turbo idea, someone was selling an electric one on the > net recently... runing low boost and 5% power gain I think.... Dont > waste your time is my opionon. > > Taking warm air from behind the radiator would be fairly pointless. A > quick and easy mod which you could do if you've got some spare pipe... > is to make a cold air intake, try and take air from a place with good > flow. You should get a noticable difference particularly in the colder > months... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:19 pm > Subject: Re: carburettor and induction questions > > > I would imagine that if you could build any boost at all with the fan > > idea, it wouldntbe enough to offset cost and weight gain. While fans > > move a lot of air, they dont build much pressure - if you think of a > > leaf blower it generates a fair gust of air, but when you stick your > > hand over the end it really doesnt produce much pressure. > > > > Air should blow back from the fan towards the engine - the fan is > > thereto suck air in from the front of the car. > > > > As for the electric fan idea, if you wired the fan up to run > > continuously you might get an economy gain, or an economy loss - when > > you are using an electric fan the power has to be generated from the > > alternator which isnt 100% efficient, and then by the fan motor which > > isnt 100% efficient and so it might take more total energy to generate > > that volume of air movement than it would with just the engine fan. > > Wired up with a thermostatic controller you would almost > > definately have > > an efficiency gain, as in reality for most of the time you dont > > need a > > radiator fan. As for a power gain, I believe you would get a power > > gainusing a thermostatic controller or not. > > > > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 23:07, Ian Fagg wrote: > > > Sorry to waste your time on these questions... I'd normally ask > > the forum for something this trivial but it's down at the moment > > so I can't. > > > > > > Firstly, looking from the front of the car (I have a stock > > stanza - L16, standard carby) is the primary throttle on the right > > or the left? I'm presuming its on the right as that one has no > > butterfly choke in the throat. > > > > > > Secondly, and I'm hypothesising a lot here, if I were to extend > > the intake duct coming into the air filter so that it had a rather > > large opening situated just behind the engine fan, would there be > > any kind of turbo effect, and would there be any noticeable > > increase in power? That'd be cheaper than a turbo :-) > > > > > > Thirdly, if there would be any increase in power from the setup > > in my second question, would it be greater than the increase in > > power from removing the belt-driven fan and replacing it with an > > electric one? > > > > > > Fourthly, and following on from the fan idea, should there be > > air blowing back from the fan towards the engine at all? Shouldn't > > the air from the fan blow onto the radiator? Or does it just spin > > so fast that some air just gets pushed backwards? That last point > > doesn't work with the laws of physics, but then some datsuns seem > > to break those anyways ;-) jk > > > > > > That's all the questions I can think of at the moment :-) > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________ > > > Get Your free Ozdat Email Account > > > ---> http://www.ozdat.com > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________ > > > Select your own custom email address for FREE! 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