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John Seybold

John Seybold

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Hi,

Just wanted to get some thoughts on whether or not holes are needed in cowls? What have you guys found out as if they’re necessary or not?

For those of you that do cut holes in the cowls, do you have a cool way of doing it? I’ve seen some that just had a drill hole in it, triangle cut. I’m sure some have come up with same nice ideas.

Thanks
 
If you have experience making molds it would be fairly easy to make a mini naca duct and glass it in place. Dimensions aren't super critical and they look cool.
 
Model sized naca ducts are available on the net, and work very well for fresh air IN. But your exh. heats and expands the air under the cowl, so you need plenty of EXIT area relief, for the heat to get out.
 
They are.. you would not be leave the true amount of air coming in to the carb.. a NACA duct is not necessary but I have made them in the past and there are rules to it to make them work properly. Ether way you need an air inlet.

Grim
 
I think Grim has it, air to the carb. The modern turbines aren't a problem with that big scoop.
The old boats, on the other hand, are an issue. Lack of air intakes will starve an engine. Depending on the cowl shape, you could get by with just exhaust stack holes to let excess hot air out though some boats have had extra vents "creatively" added to help with the air flow. Heat isn't really the problem, with the modern water cooled engines, it's air to the carb without the carb getting showered with water
 
There’s a reason a lot of saw boats don’t use Cowlings on boats with the exception to a few
 
Hobbyking has these,,or did have.
https://hobbyking.com/en_us/naca-style-inlet-duct-set.html

Bought a big set/kit of various different sizes and shapes a long time ago. Have used most of them up except a few of the very small ones. .060 lexan material. They were made in the US,,but that company has long since set sail. RC Works was the company I think. Kit came with a large square piece of tight weave SS grille screen material. Used them mostly for relieving electric speed controllers of overheating on EDF jets. They worked equally good at letting air in,,as well as reversing them to suck hot air out as per the readings.
 
John Seybold said:
Hi,

Just wanted to get some thoughts on whether or not holes are needed in cowls? What have you guys found out as if they’re necessary or not?

For those of you that do cut holes in the cowls, do you have a cool way of doing it? I’ve seen some that just had a drill hole in it, triangle cut. I’m sure some have come up with same nice ideas.

Thanks
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This scheme is working well on my D hydro, with no water impingement coming from other boats. Of course, this

is for a down draft carb setup. We added bleed ports that aren't shown in underside photo.

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