lluciani
Active Member
A couple of days ago I noticed that the plate on top of the air box had what seemed to be a small crack. When I took it off I noticed that all for corners were cracked. There seems to be plenty of clearance between the air box and the cowl so I can't think of an installation reason for this.
I didn't want to replace it with the same and have it crack again so I ordered some 1/8" thick plate and made a thicker one (the old one was 1/16").
There is a chance that others with this setup (Precision Airmotive vertical induction with the Van's air box) should be seeing this too. Inspecting it is worth adding to the list of things to do at the annual.
Luis Luciani
RV8, ~150 Hours
I didn't want to replace it with the same and have it crack again so I ordered some 1/8" thick plate and made a thicker one (the old one was 1/16").
There is a chance that others with this setup (Precision Airmotive vertical induction with the Van's air box) should be seeing this too. Inspecting it is worth adding to the list of things to do at the annual.
Luis Luciani
RV8, ~150 Hours