Re: Oh, Kamm on: more iconoclasm

[Ian Lomax <sfalfisto@xxxxxxxxx>]

i know the fumes in my spider are mostly due to fumes
from the trunk being sucked into the passenger
compartment.  it's pretty obvious in my case, the
fumes are so bad you can't put anything back there
that you might someday want to wear, or eat.

it's fine with the windows up, but with them down the
low pressure of the cabin sucks the air through the
trunk.

cheers,
ian lomax

--- agiyo <agiyo@domain.elided> wrote:
> The references to Kamm tails "sucking exhaust fumes
> into the cockpit" have
> persisted since I don't know when.  Remedies have
> largely centered around
> microscopically sealing the trunk and fitting donkey
> dong tail pipes;
> conventional wisdom is that we can't drive Spiders
> with the tops up and
> windows half down w/o inducing stupor.  (We're
> probably still not as bad as
> the average S*V dope on h** cell phone.)
> 
> The question has come up in the Institute of
> Empirical Blunders: how on earth
> does that flat tail manage to suck ALL those toxic
> fumes through the trunk
> seal, into the cockpit?  The hypothesis, without the
> benefit of knowledge or
> anything resembling proof:  It ain't, not always.
> 
> I think most of the Spider fumes I've seen have come
> from oil onto the exhaust
> header or exhaust leaks such as a hole in a muffler
> feeding into an eddy which
> leads into a cockpit vacuum through displaced
> firewall grommets, shifter, or
> e-brake boots.  You can formulate your own guesses
> why there's such a vacuum
> in the cockpit w/o a cell phone.  None of us would
> be seen with one, would
> we?
> 
> Besides, you can't hear shyte in a Spider.
> 
> Your empirical evidence is welcome.  I just don't
> think the system for sucking
> exhaust fumes through the trunk seal, through the
> whole trunk, and into
> whatever little leaks in the rear cockpit bulkhead
> is efficient enough to make
> us so sleepy.
> 
> Joe (confessed author of "God Was My COpilot")
> Cantrell
> Portland, OR
> '72 Spider PIR slut
> '73 Berlina showing tendencies
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