1" meshed air intake above the air filter inlet ?

[M204ever]

This duct port is not connected / equipped with a hose inside the cowling. Apart from that it is almost tight from color.

Is it intended for generator cooling ?

 

Thanks for your input.

[1964-M20E]

I'm not sure if the A models had the boost air on them but this sounds like what you are describing.  Designed to bypass the airfilter in clean air at higher altitudes to increase MP.

 

 

[mooneym20d]

Mooney did not have the ram air in this model. I've owned 2 of the A Models. One had a duct connected to the mesh intake sending cooling air to the mags (this one had an alternator). If you have the small tubes on the back of the inside cowl - then these are for the mags. The other had no duct - I assume it was for the generator that was installed. Hope that helps.

[lamont337]

Quote: M204ever

This duct port is not connected / equipped with a hose inside the cowling. Apart from that it is almost tight from color.

Is it intended for generator cooling ?

 

Thanks for your input.

[carusoam]

65 M20C. Had a hose cooling the generator.

 

The generator had a spring steel collar around it with a hose fitting.

 

If you still have the generator, look to see if you still have the collar.  If you have a modern alternator, cooling requirements are probably different.

 

Best regards,

 

-a-

[M204ever]

... sometimes hard to find the type design without IPC.

ram air sounds great, but the A has not , may be worth to think about a "speed mod"  

the mags are cooled via the two bend tubes attached to the upper plenum cover, I guess same as C.

fuel pump cooling, may be ... allthough diaphragma type usually not cooled.

generator has a collar and no hose connected, so it is the most propable. Strange only that the generator front is exposed directly to the airstream, so the forced cooling air ducting, if connected with the collar (at the rear of the generator) has to fight against it.

 

[DaV8or]

Different airplane with different cowling, but when I had a generator in my F, there was a hose connected to a 1" hole on the baffeling just inside the cowl inlet, to the generator for cooling. The alternator doesn't require it so I'm told. My guess is that your intake is for a generator.