David Leonard

San Diego

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Greetings,

 

I fixed my brake line today, taxied around, transferred some fuel, swung the compass, cleaned the canopy, etc.  Nothing left to do but hope my Lightspeed headset makes it back from repair, strap on the Nomex, and parachute, then see if it flies.  Probably Sat. 

 

In engine news, I still have some issues around the staging point.  The engine doesn't threaten to quit.  It just isn't smooth.  I sent the injectors off to RC Engineering today, and they'll have them Wednesday.  At least by sometime next week, I should know the true flow rate of the underachieving MSD's.  If they really don't flow what they're supposed to, It's possible that RC Engineering can modify them to flow the same as the stock Mazda's.  If that's the case, I'll probably have them do it.  It would sure be nice to have matching injectors. 

 

A question for Ed, and anyone else who uses 100LL regularly.  How many hours do you get on your plugs?  Do they burn up, or just get fouled?  Can they be cleaned? 

 

I've been running premium auto fuel, but it's almost $1.90/gallon, and a big pain to haul around, not to mention dangerous.  I'm thinking that 100LL would be even better for the turbo than 93 octane premium, but I don't want to have fouled plugs all the time.  How many people are using 100LL?

 

Thanks,

Rusty (6+ hours on the engine, and feeling bad about kidding Tommy about his high pre-flight time)