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tyoma_14 Mar 16, 2017 @ 3:55am
Spitfire carburetor
Spitfires have carburetors, that fail if you perform negative G manuveres. But you can upgrade the fuel injection in the mod tree. How is that?
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Drewskii Mar 16, 2017 @ 4:41am 
Magic.
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Scowlin Mar 16, 2017 @ 5:18am 
The Carburetor just didn't fail, but it limited fuel supply and would cause starvation if you continued for too long - far from ideal in negative g's.

I think by Mk2 they had a fix/workaround look up: 'Miss Shillings Orifice' A 'floating carburetor' fitted early on to fix the issue.

Versions for V on wards were also (retro)fitted with a Bendix carb that eliminated the issue totally using something called 'throttle body injection'
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onebullet95 Mar 16, 2017 @ 5:37am 
Look this m8: the problem is no the carburator, the problem is this:
https://youtu.be/YzRlga2-Hho
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tyoma_14 Mar 16, 2017 @ 6:29am 
Originally posted by Scowlin:
The Carburetor just didn't fail, but it limited fuel supply and would cause starvation if you continued for too long - far from ideal in negative g's.

I think by Mk2 they had a fix/workaround look up: 'Miss Shillings Orifice' A 'floating carburetor' fitted early on to fix the issue.

Versions for V on wards were also (retro)fitted with a Bendix carb that eliminated the issue totally using something called 'throttle body injection'
Yes, I know it's due to fuel starvation, sorry for not clarifying it. The problem is that the game instead of giving you a carburetor modification gives you fuel injection.
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Scowlin Mar 16, 2017 @ 6:44am 
Sorry for not explaining in detail, the final version of the fix was a 'Throttle-body fuel injection' method by the Bendix corporation. Its a type of pressure carburetor and as such a method of fuel injection.

Also I was wrong to say fuel starvation; it's power starvation caused by flooding. The Orifice solution just added a washer to control fuel flow - simple and effective for most fast combat movements allowing spitfires from Mk2 onwards to pull fast negative G's to go into a dive.

Long and short of it, the Spitfire negative G's was a short lived problem, and an upgraded called 'fuel injection' should be available for MkV onwards.
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