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Engine basics => Engine set up tips => Topic started by: Ronald Eshleman on June 20, 2012, 06:55:59 PM

Title: ST 51 single hole spray bar set up
Post by: Ronald Eshleman on June 20, 2012, 06:55:59 PM
Where should the hole in the "single hole" ST 51 spray bar be pointed  I'm thinking "down" in the same angle as the venturi?  And what is a good needle setting to get started?  I'm thinking 3 and half turns out?
Title: Re: ST 51 single hole spray bar set up
Post by: Bill Little on June 20, 2012, 07:23:28 PM
If anything, point the hole slightly to the rear from straight down.  I started with 4 turns out, it's easy to turn it in once it starts. ;D

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Title: Re: ST 51 single hole spray bar set up
Post by: Chris Wilson on June 20, 2012, 08:04:59 PM
Its been lab tested and proven that the most suction is available at about 15º below the horizon but that places the jet in a critical position so rotate the jet just out of sight.
Title: Re: ST 51 single hole spray bar set up
Post by: steven yampolsky on June 22, 2012, 03:28:46 PM
Where should the hole in the "single hole" ST 51 spray bar be pointed  I'm thinking "down" in the same angle as the venturi?  And what is a good needle setting to get started?  I'm thinking 3 and half turns out?

I have been told that the location of the hole can be used to adjust amount of surge during the 4-2 break on a side mount configuration. Clockwise increases amount of surge for the insides and counter clockwise for the outsides. Just like the tank is used to  regulate the engine speed level vs. inverted, so does the position of the hole regulate how hard the engine surges on insides vs. outsides.
I've always put the hole pointing directly down along the center-line of the venturi and have not had an opportunity to test above theory. ;D