"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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Didn't know any production aircraft had that. Well, to some extent
almost every lightplane does . that's why the carb air intake faces
forwards in most of them.Everything is a balancing act with an airplane.
More air = more drag. You could try putting a couple of woks with tubes
out the back to boost your MP, but you're going to pay for it. !Moooney
must have spotted an area of the cowl that would not penalise you in
this way and decided to utilise it. Really clever homebuilders do a lot
of this kind of stuff as well as, and probably more more importantly,
dealing with cooling drag.
Have you put the other speed mods on your airplane? I think there's
nearly ten knots available in seals and various other tidy it up
fairings.

Bertie

Dumb ass.

Its because the size of the scoop increases volume (not pressure), and you
already have too much.