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ArmandTanzarian wrote:
However, my original questions have yet to be answered. Do longer fins make any difference and is there a more efficient fan on the market?

What you need is an air scoop read this thread http://scooterotica.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2860

ha ha the nocturnal ducting sect

this thread reminded me of that earlier but thought it best not to go there again

At the risk of opening a whole duct full of worms....

I was looking underneath the scoot and it did strike me that there might be an awful lot more airflow over the hot exhaust if the splash plate was gone.

Also a big heatsink on the downpipe wouldn't hurt. I'm not sure if something with stubby little fins like this would make a significant difference though.

certainly no harm i fitting one ..but




do you alter cowling or duct air to it

ref: removing the splashplate - i thought that when you put a plate like that under the scooter and moved at speed it produces a swirl of air behind it and a lot of air flows up into the area behind (around the exhaust)?

i have a spanish cowling with the deflector - running in an iron barrel at the weekend revving up a long hill (not good) it nipped up. whern i took it apart to polish off the seize points i found it had seized either side of the bore around the transfers NOT the exhaust side - maybe a symptom of the cooling being EFFICIENTLY directed to the exhaust?

mickdale wrote:ref: removing the splashplate - i thought that when you put a plate like that under the scooter and moved at speed it produces a swirl of air behind it and a lot of air flows up into the area behind (around the exhaust)?

Interesting, what is the splash actually meant to do? (or is the clue in the name?) Do other enclosed engined scooters have them?

mickdale wrote:ref: removing the splashplate - i thought that when you put a plate like that under the scooter and moved at speed it produces a swirl of air behind it and a lot of air flows up into the area behind (around the exhaust)?

i have a spanish cowling with the deflector - running in an iron barrel at the weekend revving up a long hill (not good) it nipped up. whern i took it apart to polish off the seize points i found it had seized either side of the bore around the transfers NOT the exhaust side - maybe a symptom of the cooling being EFFICIENTLY directed to the exhaust?

WTF are you guys on about...
come on guys ...get serious...

ArmandTanzarian wrote:At the risk of opening a whole duct full of worms....

I was looking underneath the scoot and it did strike me that there might be an awful lot more airflow over the hot exhaust if the splash plate was gone.

Also a big heatsink on the downpipe wouldn't hurt. I'm not sure if something with stubby little fins like this would make a significant difference though.

interesting.......got a link to who sells these?

those exhaust flange finned manifolds may well help...but not if behind splash plates...

the splash plate does exactly what it says...
and acts just the same as a fly screen does....it deflects air and water /dirt around and away from the scooter...and so restricts air flow around the hot engine....
if this was not the case and it in fact actually helped cooling as you suggest...then all group 4 racers would be using them instead of discarding them surely....