Amazing feeling isn't it?  Makes you love the machine even more. 

 

Not looking forward to those risky miles on the road.  Thank you Ken & Kelly for the gracious offer of a friendly place to stop.  We are on a tight schedule after multiple rain/flood delays (I feel your pain Rusty) but if it works out right we will gladly take you up on the offer.  Will give you a heads up before if we are in the area at stopping time.  We have no idea what kind of speed we'll be making while towing our decrepit travel trailer "Ted"  (Temporary Emergency Domicile).

 

BTW Ed, I was amazed at the great improvement in minimum level flight fuel burn with the new engine.  That is HUGE!  Now it is closer to what mine is (~3.5 gph) as I would have expected.  I have to wonder if there was something wrong with the old engine or setup.  Did you ever play with the ignition timing before?  That is about the only thing that can make a basically healthy engine give such higher fuel burn.  (retarded ignition timing).  Anyway, glad you found the extra efficiency & power.  Even with a bit more weight & drag, your -6 should not have been that much different than my -4.

 

Tracy