Air filters

[jivey61 at bellsouth.net]

>  Guys
 I tried using a carb filter on a 140L and there was a major change in the needle. This was the filter that is sold for the YS engines. My conclusion was that if it restricted enough of the air to cause this to happen I didnt need it.
More thoughts.

Jim Ivey

> From: Rcmaster199 at aol.com
> Date: 2004/08/12 Thu PM 08:34:40 EDT
> To: discussion at nsrca.org
> Subject: Re: Air filters
> 
> Richard, you may be thinking of the Bru-Line filters. My local hobby shop 
> still carries these and they are very inexpensive. The sponge element is better 
> as an air filter/noise dampener than the 60 mesh screen that the typical Tettra 
> or similar filters use. They are not as pretty as the aluminum housed 
> "filters" but they are more effective overall for our needs
> 
> MattK
> From: Richard Strickland 
> To: NSRCA 
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 10:37 AM 
> Subject: Air filters 
> 
> Anyone, 
>   
> When we first started trying to quiet things down, one of the areas we looked 
> at was intake noise.  We used to use a stretch on filter housing with small 
> filter disks that helped the noise problems with the added benefit of keeping 
> crap out of the engine--gee, what a concept.  Are there any such animals 
> available now?  We fly off an old asphalt runway and there is the possibility 
> something significant was sucked into a brand new 170 and destroyed the piston, 
> sleeve, ring and bearing.  First time for everything, I guess.  The 60 sized ones 
> did not seem to affect performance. 
>   
> Thanks, 
>   
> Richard 
> 
> 

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