- 1. Re: Turbulators (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:14:53 -0500
- Does Harley offer independent dynometer data supporting their claims? I believe Vizard relates that the intake path can be made too smooth, that the intake and head roughness adds to maintaining the
- /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00012.html (8,293 bytes)
- 2. Re: Turbulators (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 13:22:08 -0600
- Not if it's chrome...........
- /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00016.html (7,579 bytes)
- 3. Re: Turbulators (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:03:33 EST
- I deprecate on your swirling! Is this item from Harley or just a dealer...sounds like a dealer item and as you said "snake oil". Ask your brother if the same Harley dealer had any gasoline pills. Rob
- /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00018.html (8,334 bytes)
- 4. Re: Turbulators (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 12:07:46 -0800
- These things are bunk. I fell for it on my 92 Honda Accord. Made no difference in anything. Mike MacLean 60 Sprite
- /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00020.html (8,316 bytes)
- 5. RE: Turbulators (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 14:37:57 -0500
- Gas flow velocity is important for a carburetor to atomize gas into droplets and to prevent those droplets from falling to the bottom of manifold. Velocity is also necessary to blow around the cylin
- /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00024.html (8,405 bytes)
- 6. Re: Turbulators (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 13:02:35 -0800
- I was reading Vizard the other night and ran across the place where he discusses putting a fin in the manifold to prevent swirling. He thought that it resulted in compressional condensation of the f
- /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00025.html (8,619 bytes)
- 7. Re: Turbulators (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 13:07:25 -0800
- Do you mean the ones that you put in the fuel tank and then fill it up with water? Clay L. '67 Sprite + deux chats DISCLAIMER: JPL now requires notice in all electronic communication that all person
- /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00026.html (9,413 bytes)
- 8. Re: Turbulators (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 16:26:03 EST
- Of course!...that plus the the 1000 MPG carburator the government has been hiding since WWII could be our salvation! Robert Houston Santa Teresa, NM '74 Midget 63 TR4 .. "If a woman has to choose bet
- /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00028.html (8,271 bytes)
- 9. RE: Turbulators (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 16:37:50 -0500
- The use of turbulators is quite common in flow systems. Oil, Water, etc. There use is to break the laminar flow into turbulent flow. Especially useful in cooling systems where a laminar flow could c
- /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00029.html (9,146 bytes)
- 10. Re: Turbulators (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 17:09:05 EST
- That is basically what Vizard says. This sounds like those ads offering magnets to align the poles of the atoms in the fuel. --David C.
- /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00030.html (8,002 bytes)
- 11. Re: Turbulators (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 17:11:32 EST
- LOLOL--only Peter C's mind would come up with something like that. Of COURSE!! A CHROME turbulator!!! --David C.
- /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00031.html (8,092 bytes)
- 12. Re: Turbulators (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:12:39 -0800
- Couldn't have said it better. Restricting the flow even if it means a better mix is not good. Velocity and drag have an exponental relation. For you math challenged people that means at 1xV=1xD, 2xV=
- /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00032.html (8,761 bytes)
- 13. Re: Turbulators (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 17:33:16 -0500
- Let me preface my remarks by saying that I don't have an engineering degree. In fact I don't have any kind of degree at all, which may be good or bad, depending who you ask.... I think that as long a
- /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00036.html (9,729 bytes)
- 14. Re: Turbulators (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 16:36:25 -0600
- It is just a dealer item, not Harley offered. oh yeah, I fart in your general direction!!
- /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00037.html (8,885 bytes)
- 15. Re: Turbulators (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:43:58 -0800
- Are you picking on me because I have an engineering degree!!!!!!!!!!! The problem is putting a flow restrictor is a system that already has flow problems. Crash degree. could
- /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00038.html (9,067 bytes)
- 16. Re: Turbulators (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 16:52:25 -0600
- Humm, wings on an LBC, I never thought of that!! Anyone have a wrecked plane don't need anymore????
- /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00040.html (8,824 bytes)
- 17. Re: Turbulators (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 16:50:37 -0600
- In reading through this with my brother, I find that I did not describe the item correctly. It is supposed to look like a star washer on the inside of the circle. The little pieces of metal stick out
- /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00041.html (9,673 bytes)
- 18. Re: Turbulators (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 18:29:18 EST
- I think "marginally effective" would be a better description from the rides I've had in a Cessna. Robert Houston Santa Teresa, NM '74 Midget 63 TR4 .. "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly
- /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00048.html (8,400 bytes)
- 19. Re: Turbulators (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:31:19 -0800 (PST)
- yeh man. I have used turbolators upstream of devices that need temp stratification removed, like hot wire anemometers. Good there. In tube heat exchangers, the tubes are dimpled and the dimples are i
- /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00049.html (9,376 bytes)
- 20. Re: Turbulators (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 18:35:30 EST
- Check with John Denver, Ricky Nelson, or Leynard Skynard..... Robert Houston Santa Teresa, NM '74 Midget 63 TR4 .. "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, s
- /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00051.html (8,435 bytes)
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