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Old 05-18-2009, 10:09 PM
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Default Cooling the Mags

Is it necessary to have blast air from the inlets to cool the magnetos? Or is this something I shouldn't bother adding.
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Old 05-19-2009, 12:55 AM
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Anecdotal Evidence (no hard data here):

I got 2,000 hours out of the Mags on my old old Grumman - no blast tubes.

I have now got 900+ hours of life (so far) out of the mags on my RV (and the internals looked great at the last inspection) - no blast tubes.

I'm sure that you will get a variety of opinions on this - I'd rather keep the cooling air on the cylinders. People have sealed up very small holes and gotten lower CHT's - why open up a couple more "leaks" in the pressure plenum?

Oh - Louise's RV-6 has blast tubes - 2600 hours - no problems! So maybe all my experience cancels out.....
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