ORIGINAL: Strat2003
Just thinking with my fingertips here, but is there any chance that the intake noise could be muffled by drawing the air from inside the fuselage?
On Rick's airplane there is a hole in the center of the soft mount already. Maybe a big hole in the firewall and something to shroud the carb a little better? Maybe box off the front of the fuse to serve as an intake muffler?
Exactly. I am doing exactly that except the choke baffle gets in the way of sealing the carb to sponge interface. I have a hole in the firewall in my plane so some air is being sucked from the fuse. A bicylce inner tube that surrounds the stand offs is the next thing I will play with. It will cover the engine backplate to the soft mount front face
If someone gets to fly this idea before I do next weekend, please report the findings here