The Mustang is still (in my opinion) the prettiest of
WWII on, but all interesting, Thanx,
Harold
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Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 2:25 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Fw: [FlyRotary]
New subject: Pulstar Plugs
Jesse,
I sent an e mail to these folks asking them if they had any data on how
their plug performed under fouling conditions - both carbon and lead. Be
interesting to see what the response is - if I get one of course.
$25
is a lot to pay when the stock ones run $5-7 a piece, but if you fly
much with 100LL then you will find you need to replace them around 25
hours or so. So if this plug overcame the fouling problem and gave
a much longer life, then they might be worth the price for that reason
along.
Ed >> Isn't 25 bucks each a lot to pay for an air
gapped plug ? There may be >> more to them than that but that is my
first reaction. We used to have to >> move plug wire back off plug
or cut small gap in wire to get a plug to >> fire when valve guide
seals went out and/or some other reason loaded >> combustion
chamber with oil. I first learned that from seeing used cars >>
when worn out and using a lot of oil with wire gapped and taped where
>> didn't notice. <g> >> jofarr, soddy
tn >>
It won't prevent fouling. If you have carbon on the insulator it will
foul, end of story. The problem isn't having enough voltage to fire. The
problem is being sure that the discharge jumps the gap instead of running down
the face of the insulator in the carbon. You can have a million volts but if
the spark runs on the surface it won't run any better. I have seen all kinds
of high energy CDI systems. They never worked any better.
Bill Jepson
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