Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #2725
From: Russell Duffy <13brv3@bellsouth.net>
Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: MSD injector test results
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:59:35 -0500
To: 'Rotary motors in aircraft' <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Message

Sorry, it will be months yet until my engine runs again.  It ran on the dyno, now waiting to run on the airplane.

Roger, thanks anyway.

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. 

Your secondaries are still pretty close compared to others.   

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.

The default settings are for 460 injectors, so your 570's should run that rich.  You may have to reduce your mode 3 injector flow rate eventually.   

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).

Tracy said it would work better to have the smaller injectors as primaries, and he was right.  It will irritate me (almost more than the ugly cowl) until I can figure out how to get the injectors matched, and switched back to normal. 

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.
Great.  They were very helpful when I called with some questions about the throttle body, and they didn't even care that it was for an airplane.  I may call them again and see if they can suggest a way to use other injectors. 
 
Cheers,
Rusty
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