X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com ([74.125.82.50] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.0) with ESMTPS id 5047030 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:53:14 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=74.125.82.50; envelope-from=rwstracy@gmail.com Received: by wwe6 with SMTP id 6so2222372wwe.7 for ; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:52:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=Z2HSrOy8+u+OJ5nh+15GtbivfIyjYyd9AI2TB1vZmZs=; b=H13ug69lnmHa2pj8OCIIsQoN0WjUCc9f4CjzrCMvH3Yh5Srl8eWNuHDmtov91rG4ro ULsm5XvD534oBwEmeB3M6fJ6DI1pEvUVtdfMLWKht9r/zk6Z0EF3QmifCpCbLLXnZXHO 6ZbnME/LrzBR3VsgbPNAfbJnJ1zO+gvJh2w9g= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.198.146 with SMTP id v18mr2678089wen.94.1310237559062; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:52:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.90.205 with HTTP; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 11:52:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 14:52:39 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Ceramic Apex Seals From: Tracy To: Rotary motors in aircraft Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e6d59e1b477fd104a7a774db --0016e6d59e1b477fd104a7a774db Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 My vote would be staying with 2mm. Tracy On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Thomas Mann wrote: > I'm buying new high compression rotors and have this question: > I have heard that most racing engines machine the rotors to accept 3MM > seals. > Would it behoove me to have these new rotors machined to 3MM and get the > heavier apex seals to match or should I stick with the 2MM seals? > > T Mann > --0016e6d59e1b477fd104a7a774db Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable My vote would be staying with 2mm.

Tracy

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Thomas Mann <thomasmann51@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm buying ne= w high compression rotors and have this question:
I have heard that mos= t racing engines machine the rotors to accept 3MM seals.
Would it behoove me to have these new rotors machined to 3MM and get t= he heavier apex seals to match or should I stick with the 2MM seals?

T Mann

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