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Swamp Dawgs 52 Buildup Progress
Swamp Dawg:
I made the Rad door from 16ga, and I think the belly and nose are 12ga.
the old trucker:
Swamp Dawg did you get your old radiator recored, using the old tanks or did you modify a different tank ?? I'm curious ??
Swamp Dawg:
We refurbished the old tank, just cleaned out the scale. We put in a different rad all together, it barely fits.
the old trucker:
Sorry Dawg i screwed up with the way I asked my question. What I thought I asked was did you get your old rad re cored by using the tanks from the old rad. Did you have much trouble getting the gas tank clean & what kind of machine did your new rad come from??
Lastly Dawg, You have a carburetter engine in your bomber. I can get a 6 Cly. 300 Ford with fuel injection. Some people tell me that a fuel injected engine will not starve for fuel. Do you or anyone else have have any problem with regards to fuel.
Swamp Dawg:
Oh I miss read your question, ( I read pretty fast). No we never bothered with cores on the rad, we wanted a bigger rad for increase cooling efficiency. The tank is I believe an original steel somewhat square tank, that wasn't in too bad of shape. We put a handful of small sized slag (byproduct of the mine in town), and shook it to death then cleaned with varasol a few times.
Yes its carbed engine, we haven't really had any fuel delivery problems that we could notice, actually I think I stalled it once when I spun out on a steep hill. I suppose fuel injection would have prevented that. We did think about converting ours to fuel injection, but we decided that staying simple with a carb might be more reliable. But if the motor already has it, I would hesitate using it in a bomber.
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