Reno air races this weekend.

[Babalonian]

Then again, I should probabley just check my own photo collection first as I found probabley the bestest to demonstrate my bableing.



This photo is when we removed the heads and banks last winter for a top-half overhaul (a royal and very necessary PITFA, each bank of 6 jugs and heads (so one each side in a V-12 - so only half) has something close to over 120 O-rings around the all the heads and valves (4 per jug) requireing replacment... anywho), no better time to see the supercharger without any obstruction (its the big black boxy thing where the upper-aft of the engine is supposed to be, with a rag (professional-grade dust retarder) stuffed in the now exposed/open port feeding to the engine).


Edit: I probabley have the original file if anoyne wants or needs (higher definition/detail and not compressed and processed by photobucket).

[CAP1]

Strege streaked into the lead in very heat she raced and won sunday gold.

Rare Bear had cooling issues that never worked out and had to pull up in the sunday heat.

Precious metal had a gear door issue.

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 that's a good photo....what's coming out the cooling door there?

[icepac]

The mist you see is "adi fluid" that is sprayed on oil coolers but some planes use a "boil off" scheme.

The box behind the engine is where the air/water intercooler normally sits with the curved casting you can barely see below and behind it being the supercharger itself.

Most, if not all reno planes are now "pipe engines" in that the intercoolers are replaced with a pipe and they use alcohol/water (adi fluid) to cool the intake charge.

The proper term is really "aftercooler" especially in two stage systems that use a water cooled shroud around the supercharger which would actually be the "intercooler" but, if you use the wrong terminology enough times, it becomes accepted as correct much like the term "NOS" which people now use instead of N20 or "nitrous oxide".

[Babalonian]

The mist you see is "adi fluid" that is sprayed on oil coolers but some planes use a "boil off" scheme.

The box behind the engine is where the air/water intercooler normally sits with the curved casting you can barely see below and behind it being the supercharger itself.

Most, if not all reno planes are now "pipe engines" in that the intercoolers are replaced with a pipe and they use alcohol/water (adi fluid) to cool the intake charge.

The proper term is really "aftercooler" especially in two stage systems that use a water cooled shroud around the supercharger which would actually be the "intercooler" but, if you use the wrong terminology enough times, it becomes accepted as correct much like the term "NOS" which people now use instead of N20 or "nitrous oxide".

I was curious if it was indeed adi, had a strong hunch with it being a racer and all.  It's definetley been modified, I also noticed the radiator behind the oil cooler is missing or been removed/modified, so I also suspected the entire aftercooler-supercharger system is absent/missing/heavily-modified...

Does she usualy drool that much oil (during races)?

[Seanaldinho]

Then again, I should probabley just check my own photo collection first as I found probabley the bestest to demonstrate my bableing.

(Image removed from quote.)

This photo is when we removed the heads and banks last winter for a top-half overhaul (a royal and very necessary PITFA, each bank of 6 jugs and heads (so one each side in a V-12 - so only half) has something close to over 120 O-rings around the all the heads and valves (4 per jug) requireing replacment... anywho), no better time to see the supercharger without any obstruction (its the big black boxy thing where the upper-aft of the engine is supposed to be, with a rag (professional-grade dust retarder) stuffed in the now exposed/open port feeding to the engine).


Edit: I probabley have the original file if anoyne wants or needs (higher definition/detail and not compressed and processed by photobucket).

That was my second guess, but it looks like that air intake would go right over the cylinders so cooling came to mind.

[homersipes]

Then again, I should probabley just check my own photo collection first as I found probabley the bestest to demonstrate my bableing.



This photo is when we removed the heads and banks last winter for a top-half overhaul (a royal and very necessary PITFA, each bank of 6 jugs and heads (so one each side in a V-12 - so only half) has something close to over 120 O-rings around the all the heads and valves (4 per jug) requireing replacment... anywho), no better time to see the supercharger without any obstruction (its the big black boxy thing where the upper-aft of the engine is supposed to be, with a rag (professional-grade dust retarder) stuffed in the now exposed/open port feeding to the engine).

thanks for the info, quite cool

rag (professional-grade dust retarder)

and this I will have to remember

[Grayeagle]

Man .. would have loved to been elbow deep in stuff like that when I was able.
Ultimate hot rods

-Frank aka GE