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Re: Engine valances

To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Engine valances
From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 08:17:39 +0100
In article <LOBBKKIPHFOOFLHGIEDAKEIDDGAA.parrotthead01@home.com>, Daniel
L Parrott <parrotthead01@home.com> writes
>I just added some aluminum valance panels in order to keep rain water from
>splashing from my left wheel and drowning my distributor!  My engine had
>stalled when I ran through a particularly deep puddle last year.
>
>As far as I can tell, it may help with the cooling by channeling the fan's
>air along the engine rather that out the rear wells.  Just a thought.
>
>Is your Spit a 1979-1980 with a slant radiator?  If so, I have a pattern for
>the valance panels in case your are interested.

No, she's a '77 with a vertical rad.   Thanks for the offer, though.

ATB
Mike
-- 
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea,"
published by Greenhill Books on 28th March, 2001:
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html

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