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Default RE: Inconsistency on Fuel Ports on Composite Air Traps


ORIGINAL: marc s

The port size has changed slightly over time, initially when we designed the CAT we sourced a manufacturer (in the USA) who made a good barb product, only issue was the bore was not large enough for the requirements we wanted in terms of flow. The fix was to re-drill these barbs out to the size we required.

Naturally this is a process which is not best use of time/resource so recently we have purchased a CNC lathe and are manufacturing our own barbs which we can make to our own specs and change them as required.

I understand your concerns but the bore size (smallest you have) is designed to work 100% efficiently with turbine sizes it is designed for.

However I am happy to ship you two CAT's with the same size bore in the barb FOC for your project to ensure you are totally happy - just PM me your details.

marcs

Marc will do, My main concern is that I have a twin turbine setup so I want to match everything in the fuel / plumbing area. I am working with 2x 170 (really 165N) turbines. These are the medium traps. I have a large 260ML on a 180, works really nice.