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Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 08:20:34 -0500
From: Charlie England <ceengland@bellsouth.net>
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To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Into the blue again :-)
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Haywire wrote:

>     Today we flew for 6.3 hrs and everything was great again. We 
> calibrated a few items including the electronic governor for the IVO 
> prop. What a difference that makes. Also calibrated the PSS AOA and 
> the Dynon AOA and they each are phenomenal tools. The engine is 
> running great with no major issues at all. I do have a little tweaking 
> to do on the low MAP table, but nothing urgent. Then only problem that 
> I had today was that my Sony Vaio laptop doesn't seem to like high 
> altitude. I have a small Vaio and have built a place for it to mount 
> easily and use it to display Jeppenson's FlightMap in-flight GPS 
> program. It works great until 10,300' where it would then display the 
> blue screen and then reboot. After the 4th time it refused to reboot 
> again so now I'm forced to use the system recovery disc and wipe the 
> disc clean. I hate to think about all the files that I said I would 
> back-up soon... :-(. My old laptop still works fine(using it now) so 
> maybe I'll try it tomorrow.
>     My EWP's are now back in a series configuration. I'd like to 
> experiment further with a parallel system, but right now I want to get 
> my hours done so I went back to something that I know works fine. The 
> biggest change I made was to my fuel system where most of my previous 
> problems were. I completely removed the header tank ansd all of it's 
> assosiated plumbing. The new system is a returnless EFI and it has 
> worked flawlessly now for 12.5 hours of engine running. I couldn't be 
> more pleased with the current system.
>     My temps are fine, but in extended steep climbs the coolant temp 
> slowly creeps up to 210F. I first noticed this last fall after I had 
> my hail encounter that damaged the cooling fins on my rads. I spent 
> much time straightening the cooling fins but I doubt that I'll ever 
> get the fins back to straight enough to regain full efficiency. I'll 
> have to stop by the wreckers soon and get another good set of cores to 
> get ready for a quick swap.
>
> S. Todd Bartrim
> Turbo 13B
> RV-9endurance
> C-FSTB
> http://www3.telus.net/haywire/RV-9/C-FSTB.htm
>
>          "Whatever you vividly imagine, Ardently desire, Sincerely 
> believe in, Enthusiastically act upon, Must inevitably come to pass".
>
>    

How about a writeup on how you implemented the returnless fuel pumps? 
Pumps used, regulator used, etc.

Thanks,

Charlie