Where do you live, Don?  What say we swap planes for a year of so....you
build mine and I will fly yours!  :>)
Bill B

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From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Don Wallker
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 2:50 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Only 16 hours

    Yeah, I  know, only 16 hours.  Confession time.  I'm much more a builder
than a flier.  I'm starting to enjoy  flying the 8, but I really like
building!  Going out to the hanger and spending the evening, with a problem
in mind to solve and running solutions through my head, in 3D and rotating
and changing it (like a mental CAD program) and then figuring out the
practicalities of building it with available materials and skills or
searching for other materials and others who have the skill and tools.  I
miss waking up at 2:30 am  with a possible solution, writing it down so I
can go back to sleep and then trying it out the next day.  These night time
solutions aren't always correct, but they almost always lead me on to the
next step and the next, etc.  And then building the thing.  Most things I
built 3 times before I got it right.  
When it's right it's RIGHT.
    Then there is my personality defect.  The better is always at war with
the good.  Defiantly a builder thing and not a flyer thing.  It feels great
to be new and better and different. And that is just the outcome.  The
process is fun too.  To bad it's a never ending cycle.  
Not to mention there is a former Tomcat instructor out here with a clip wing
Super RV-6 with a dynoed 317 HP IO-540 in it, doing 3000 ft/min on climb
out.  Not to mention the huge C.S. club he has out front.  I'd really like
to have something approaching this power and have it done with finesse and
expertise rather than money and brute horsepower.  I'm not sure if the
rotors in the Renesis are 9.7 or 10.0 to 1.  My paper work from Bruce says
both.  I think I need to talk to him about whether the engine will handle it
or not.
    This whole thing is a thought experiment.  I figure that to get the NA
working better I will have to build a new exhaust and intake.  Build it less
fancy and more like Tracy's, paying more attention to the inside
welding and reducing flow disturbances.    If I'm going to all that
work, perhaps the thing is to take it to the next level, turbo or even
20B.  Major advantages and disadvantages with both routes.    Anyone
other there have an extra Renesis 4 port lower aluminum intake manifold they
want to sell?

Don
N113BR
Flying Renesis powered RV-8,

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