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Old 11-27-06, 10:02 AM   #19 (permalink)
MN12
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Re: progress on 1149

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Originally Posted by jimbo
Also note the vintage 289 SBF with RIS (rope induction system). How this works: we saturate the rope with fuel, start the engine up, and the airflow vaporizes the fuel in the rope and pulls it into the intake. About every hundred feet or so, we have to stop, get out the fuel can, and resaturate the rope. However for the cost of Webers we can buy lots of rope.

And lots of fire extinguisher refills.
Ohh that's what that is. I thought it was a new take on the bundle of snakes exhaust.
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