If you guys (Ed and Al) don't mind,
I'd like to propose a test. At your convenience, and I'm not
kidding- don't make any special trips, or go to any real effort. Could
each of you run at low power, below the staging point, maybe 1500 rpm, and
enable only one set of injectors at a time. I'd be interested to see
what position on the mixture knob you have to use for each set. On mine,
I have to turn the mixture knob to about 9:00 for the Mazda 550's, and about 3:00 for the MSD's.
The test will be interesting, since
(as I recall) Al has Mazda 550's as primaries, and also has the same MSD's
that flow about 500 as secondaries. I can't recall if I've ever seen the
physical layout of these though. Are they all the same distance from
the rotors?
Sorry, it will be months yet until my
engine runs again. It ran on the dyno, now waiting to run on the
airplane.
RC Engineering measured 570 cc/min on my
Mazda injectors that I used as primaries. I have no measurements on the
MSD 2013s. You can see on the attached photo the 570s are in the rotor
housings and the 2013s are out in the TB.
I’m not surprised at your mixture
knob settings. Mine were even more extreme. I don’t recall
ever running on the MSDs only below the staging point. For the 570s I had
to turn the mixture knob as far as it would go to get enough correction at
idle, and then it may still have been a bit rich. But I was running with
a constant pressure fuel regulator at 40 psi.
I’ve changed to a MAP referenced
regulator, and I’m planning on switching the wiring to run the MSDs as
the primaries (if my wiring harness allows; I have completely separate wiring
to the two sets coming from different sides).
BTW; a plug for TWM Induction. I
returned my constant pressure regulator and they very promptly swapped my old
fittings into a new MAP referenced body and returned it to me – NO
charge. A bright spot in my day.
Al