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• Anyone know how I can calculate the CFM of air that my diesel consumes.
  • your engine mfg should have that info readily available....
    • Does this look right?
      • I think you want to divide by 2 instead of multiply.
        • oops...I think we are both wrong!
          • Are the RPM's measured at the end of the crank shaft or the end of the transmission?
            • I've not seen readings for other than engine rpm.
              • I beleive that's right...So I think for our Yanmar 4JH4-HTE
          • The positions don't matter.
            • exactly
  • THe engine needs to shut off as you hit the fire extinguisher unless you're using a foam vs. "gas"?
    • ABYC spec:
      • I think the more important spec is what your insurance company says....
      • The issue is that the gas will quell the fire -- but
        • I thought the issue was more that
          • The gas displaces the Oxygen
  • If you install a fixed fire extinguisher system you also need...
  • Saftey for person in engine room
    • If it's the same beautiful canoe sterned boat I remember...
      • It is tight but I have had 2 people in there at once.
        • Is this the same Coast 34
          • Wow I love looking at picts of other Coasts