[SPAM] Re: Pipe Life Questions

[Bill Glaze]

Buff (and others who have had the same problem)
About how many flights did it take to get the pipe blockage that you 
folks are talking about?  Obviously, it announces itself by degrading 
engine performance, and I was curious about when to start looking for 
the problem.  One of my Hatori pipes had a lot of crud on the outside, 
and I cleaned it with some Airplane Cleaner that I picked up at Advanced 
Auto Parts.  It took several applications, but did a fair job of 
cleaning.  But--that's not the same as the inside of the pipe.  When I 
was building engines, I had a 5 gallon pail of carburetor cleaner and 
I'm wondering if that stuff would do any good.  It sure removed all the 
crud from a carburetor; while the race engines never got all that dirty, 
I did do other stuff besides, and I saw the carb cleaner work miracles.

Bill Glaze
P.S. Buff:  See you at Myrtle Beach!


Buff Miller wrote:

> Hi Steve,
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> You're not too late.  I had the pipe in the PP for 24 hours with no 
> ill effects.  It did clean some carbon, as seen by chunks of carbon 
> being flushed out.  But did it clean it thoroughly?  I guess the 
> engine will tell me next time out.  Or, though I'm not quite ready for 
> this; perform an autopsy on the pipe.
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> Buff
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> From: discussion-request at nsrca.org 
> [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Steve Wiggin
> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 11:41 AM
> To: discussion at nsrca.org
> Subject: Pipe Life Questions
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> Be careful with the Purple Power on aluminum. If it's the same stuff 
> I'm thinking of, made by Castrol, I used some to clean my motorcycle 
> wheel and it pitted the aluminum rim! Hope this message is not too late.
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> Steve
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