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MISSBHAVEN
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James - You wouldn't want to have any loose pieces of clothing any where near the engine at full throttle with that sort of suction.  What would happen if you got roostered behind another boat, can you put a deflector on the intake to shield it from something like that?
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Xerophobic
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roosted? won't a boat have to be in front of me for that to happen?
Im told a garden hose could be fired into the engine at WOT as long as the stream was not too direct. The engine can handle that much moisture without issue. Look at the layout drawings again and picture a firewall of sorts between exhaust duct and seats. not really any room for spray to enter the engine bay in any significant quantity. I don't think I will deck over the entire back of the boat, only about 3' forward leaving lots of room for air to enter under that deck to supply the turbine
Its all still theory till the hull is built.
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Cavefish
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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The first cut!
They used to throw walnut shells into the intake on the helicopter I worked on to "clean things out".
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Xerophobic
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Geez you blink around here and boats are half built!
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Rapidchaser
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Geez Xero, you amaze me.
Next thing you know your be going up/down the river with rockets! 
Good luck on this one I know it will be both great and exciting!
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Skinnydipper
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Xero:
I'd check your camera lens for some sort of square proprietary bug  ...........seems to have blocked one of your photos.......or perhaps a reflection of you in the aluminum getting off on the new boat stuff
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Dano
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Wow. Cool vid man.
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Skinnydipper
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Sweeeet...........I knew something was in the works...........there was too much dead air time..........very well done vid 
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Xerophobic
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Uh oh we have a new member who is gonna go and point out all the stuff Ive misunderstood about turbines haha
Be gentle with us Rocketboy!
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rocketboat
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject: AAhhhhhh... grasshopper... |
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| Xerophobic wrote: | the turbine will burn almost anything. In fact you can pretty much mix as you wish it will just not burn pure gasoline as it burns too hot. How about completing your next race using a cheap fuel mix of stove oil and diesel or kerosene
The fuel governer will automatically adjust for the fuel there is no change to engine operation only in some cases startup procedure.
I'd grab one of those little Allisons in heartbeat if I didn't have too many projects on the go now!
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Xero... you are doing an awesome job of fielding the turbine questions my friend.. you have listened well my young apprentice... (In my best evil emperor voice...) Soon we will have them all converted to the power of the Turbine..... JOIN ME NOW AND WE WILL RULE THE RIVER AS... oh never mind...
About the comment above though... you actually CAN run 100% gas in them. But only for a limited ammount of time. Generally you are allowed straight gas for 10% of the overhaul life of the engine... (so 30 hours out of 3000) it is not great... you get deposits... it burns hot and you need to watch your throttle/egt as a result... but it can be done. (This is usually reserved for emergencies when no other fuel is available.)
Some video of the BWB is now at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShO4K6ySfzg
There will be a better version of it complete with the proper turbine sounds later next week.
Cheers,
Howie
www.thefirestormgroup.com
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Xerophobic
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If I find out you're my father Howard Im switching back to FX class!
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| Cavefish wrote: | The first cut!
They used to throw walnut shells into the intake on the helicopter I worked on to "clean things out". |
Hey Cavefish... I once had an Engineer spray Jet A down the intake while motoring the engine over as an alternate to Compressor Wash Fluid once... some very tense moments during that one... I have heard of using the Walnut shell method, though I have never had the chance to use them.
A company I did some work for just before Christmas had a guy spraying Corrosion Preventative Compound (ACF 50) down the intake with a garden sprayer... while motoring the engine... and the brass tip came off the wand... can you say oop$.... (The engine came back from overhaul last week and it was just over $200K)
And yes Xero... It is Kawasaki that builds the T-53 these days tho it is the -17 versions mostly. (1800hp) and no.... I am not your father... 
I ain't that ugly....
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Xerophobic
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p.s. Post up some hardcore T-53 video !
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