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Well Evolution One of the once stretched and fattened rotary Locost is now the chopped and shrunken Locost. Was it worth all the work? I think it was around 300 hours to do the mods. I guess the real deal will be on the results on the time sheets. I cooked myself up a bit of a diffuser to try and suck those Hoosiers to the race track. |
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The profile of the hood now is almost flat from the nose cone to the scuttle. I also added a vent on the side of the hood to let the air escape from the back fo the oil cooler A Supertrapp was added to try and mellow out that "honking" rotary roar. |
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I did a bit more cooking up front. A somewhat smallish spliter and air damn will now try and suck the front end down. |
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Those front fenders don't really cover the 10" tires, but still fit around the Toyos. There is also a massive NACA duct on the nose cone now that feeds directly on to the oil cooler to try and keep the oil temp below the 230-240 I was seeing last year. |
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The cockpit is much smaller now. I am 5'11" and I of course I fit perfectly. I have not got around to fabbing up a new wind deflector yet, pretty much the last thing on the list. |
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The new dash. Well really a lack of one. I just mounted the guages right to the scullte. This makes it a bit lighter but more of a pain to track down wirring gremlins. Which I have one of course! |