hecilopter
Well Known Member
I am getting ready for the paint shop and I'm trying to clean up everything as much as possible to reduce drag. One obvious thing hanging in the wind is the exhaust hanging about 2" lower than the absolute bottom of the cowl exit.
I'm thinking of pulling a straight line even with the bottom of the cowl exit, parallel with the fuselage and marking the pipes to cut off at an angle basically making them even with the bottom of the cowl exit. This would result in an oval shaped, down pointed exit for the exhaust. I would only be cutting off about 1 1/2" of the forward side of the exhaust exit and almost 0 from the rear side.
Has anyone tried this? I saw a post about cutting the whole downturn off and other things, but not this.
I would think it should help by getting the round pipes out of the air stream and shouldn't result in any additional noise or floor pounding since the exhaust is still pointed down.
Thanks!
I'm thinking of pulling a straight line even with the bottom of the cowl exit, parallel with the fuselage and marking the pipes to cut off at an angle basically making them even with the bottom of the cowl exit. This would result in an oval shaped, down pointed exit for the exhaust. I would only be cutting off about 1 1/2" of the forward side of the exhaust exit and almost 0 from the rear side.
Has anyone tried this? I saw a post about cutting the whole downturn off and other things, but not this.
I would think it should help by getting the round pipes out of the air stream and shouldn't result in any additional noise or floor pounding since the exhaust is still pointed down.
Thanks!