I am such a rotary geek....but I really dislike the list being this quiet.  I am a junkie to this place.

 

Anyway, I have been making progress....since I am not going to Osh.  Next year, surely....one year I will be right?????

 

I made brackets for and secured  my intercooler under my engine.  I also made a plenum to the intercooler to direct air and secured some scat and ceet hoses to it. 

 

I also wired in some temperature activated switches for the oil and coolant fans. 

 

The fuel return hose was originally a long return line to the cool side of the engine, routed under the engine.  I do not remember why we chose this route, however, I re-did all of this to a much, much more direct and hopefully better set up.

 

I couldn't wait to go and start it again.  I broke one of the cardinal rules of homebuilding by changing more than one thing at a time.  HOWEVER, I pushed her out of the hangar and low and behold she started right up and ran smooth just like it did a week or two again.  Wahoo (tentatively).  Ran her up to 6300 rpm at 34 MP with the prop full fine (45 degrees if IIRC) on the IVO.  Those temps really sore at WOT but was able to keep it up for a short bit...it was "only" 80 degrees out (about 2 am in Houston).  As I have stated, it will idle all day long, even at 100 OAT and stays pretty cool, but goes up fast with power.

 

I hope to get out there most the day (hopefully) tomorrow.  This was fun....even if not at Osh.

 

Chris Barber

Houston, GSOT

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