On 14 May 2015, at 8:16 am, Andrew Martin <flyrotary@lancaironline.net> wrote:

Bill

I bought my 20b as a front cut, dealer bought the car in Japan but laws here meant only private cars can be imported so car was cut in half. cost AU$5000 for front half. SN C275a 70000 km, apart from the chop through the pillars and pan. immaculate.

realized was too much engine for my airframe so bought one of the test renesis engines, seems ok so far. took plane to airport yesterday for final assembly, so maybe only couple of years to go!

Got to find an airframe for the 20b now the workshop is empty.  but don't know what to do about drive and efi/ignition.

Regards

Andrew Martin
Western Australia

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 7:03 AM, Bill Bradburry <flyrotary@lancaironline.net> wrote:

So are a lot of folks upgrading to the 20B?

Where are you finding your engines and to those who don’t mind disclosing, what are you having to pay for a 20B

 

I have considered either the 20B or going to a turbo on the Renesis for my Lancair Legacy.  There are pros and cons both way.

I would like to have an honest 250 HP here and I really stress the honest.  I would like to see a 250-270 HP takeoff at sea level, and a cruise at 8K ft of close to 200 HP

 

Bill

 

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From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:41 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Questions for Ed Anderson- Plugs UP Oil System photo of bottom

 

Bobby,

 

    Curious as to the serial # (A,B,C,D XXX) of your 20B.........I purchased Rob Johnson's

unused early (Before reinforced dowel area side plates) 20B serial #A304 recently... He

purchased it in about 1997 for his Velocity and did not use it..........Amazing how small a

package that 250+ hp is after removing about 100 lbs of turbos and other unneeded parts 

from it........

 

 

Kelly Troyer

 

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Bobby J. Hughes <flyrotary@lancaironline.net> wrote:

Kelly,

 

No weight and balance issues with the RV10 and 20B. The aluminum plates would be nice but not in the budget.

 

Bobby

 

From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 11:17 AM

To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Questions for Ed Anderson- Plugs UP Oil System photo of bottom

 

Bobby,

   Can your ship handle the extra weight or are you thinking of replacing some of

the iron side plate with alum plates such as those from "Racing Beat" ?

 

Kelly troyer

 

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 7:30 AM, Ed Anderson <flyrotary@lancaironline.net> wrote:

Well, I found that like anything else the Plugs up installation has its pros and cons.

 

However, the only real con was the lack of vendor support for Plugs Up.

 

Having the exhaust outlet on the bottom simplified plumbing, also reduce chance of fuel from injectors falling directly on a hot exhaust.  No problem with flooding the engine.  I did it a few times, but 4—5 revs of the engine pumped all the excess fuel out the exhaust ports and of course the spark plug holes being on top did not collect fuel.  It also provided room under the cowl for longer intake runners – don’t know if that would be the case with the 20B, but assume it would.

 

All in all, if I did it again, I would use plugs up everything else being the same.  Oh, yes, much easier to change the spark plugs {<image001.gif>}

 

I did have to modify Tracy’s PRSU mounting plate slightly – moving the starter position. 

 

Good luck on your decision, Bobby – more power is always hard to resist {<image001.gif>)

 

Ed

 

From: Bobby J. Hughes

Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 8:04 AM

To: Rotary motors in aircraft

Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Questions for Ed Anderson- Plugs UP Oil System photo of bottom

 

Looks like a good arrangement. I’m still on the fence as to installing the 20B I purchased a few weeks back. If I do make the swap I’m considering plugs up as an option.

 

Bobby

 

From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 4:50 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Questions for Ed Anderson- Plugs UP Oil System photo of bottom

 

Hi Bobby,

 

Found this old photo of the bottom of the oil pan which may help.  The blue fitting is naturally the drain hole at the lowest part of the sump.

 

Ed

 

From: Bobby J. Hughes

Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 3:39 PM

To: Rotary motors in aircraft

Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Questions for Ed Anderson- Plugs UP Oil System

 

Thanks Ed. The standoff is not visible in the picture but I had guessed  you did something similar. Any issues with sealing the oil pickup tube to the block off plate and front iron?

 

Bobby

 

From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 3:23 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Questions for Ed Anderson- Plugs UP Oil System

 

Hi Bobby,

 

I believe the things you have the arrows pointing to are triangular shaped braces that support the oil sump to the oil pan.  The are welded to top of sump and plate.

 

To access the bolts in the area of the sump, I stood the 4”x 4” tubing I used for the sump off from the pan about 1 – 1 1/2”.  I did this by using a 1” x 1 1/2” rectangular tube (its end’s plugged) welded to both the plate and the sump.  Then 3/4” dia  (I think around 6 holes) holes were drilled through plate, standoff and sump for the oil to return to the sump – probably best to drill holes before welding components together, but they can be drilled from the inside plate side – just make sure you get all shavings out.  This stand-off also gave you access to around 3-4 pan bolts.  Depending on your set up these may or may not be a pain  to unscrew, but it can be done.

 

The round tall blue tube served as oil fill tube and dip stick tube. It was threaded internally at the top and a threaded plug with a hole drilled in it for the dip stick was used.

 

The aluminum tubes were coolant (front) and air/oil separator (which I took off after two years of flying with it and it collecting no oil, because the rotary simply was not spitting any out.

 

Ed

 

From: Bobby J. Hughes

Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 2:57 PM

To: Rotary motors in aircraft

Subject: [FlyRotary] Questions for Ed Anderson- Plugs UP Oil System

 

Ed,

I have a couple of question about your plug up installation. How do you access the oil pan bolts located behind the oil reservoir and allow for oil drain back? Also I see what looks like an additional tube (black arrow) in the attached photo. Can’t figure out what it’s for. Is it a  support bracket?

 

Thanks,

 

Bobby Hughes

 

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