Finally, I have the plane running well. It turns out I had two things wrong- I had mis-wired the crank angle sensor, and I damaged the circuitry on my EC2 controller. Here's how I screwed up my EC2- I put four nylon screws through the circuit board where there are already existing holes and drilled through the faceplate. A also had the screw hold a piece of Kydex which went around the Sub D connector. I did this with the idea of taking stress off of all the solder joints holding the assembly together. In the process, I damaged the solder connections where the mixture potentiometer connects to the circuit board.  I thought the pot was bad, but Tracy found and corrected the problem.

 

I'm lucky that nothing worse occurred due to my ham-fisted tinkering.

 

 

I'm still not getting the oil and coolant temps up where they should be, it was around 80 degrees and the  highest I could get the coolant was 170, and about 160 for the oil. That was cruising around at full throttle at 3800 feet. Earlier I made a lip for my air scoop that decreased the opening by ~ 16 square inches and streamlined the flow of air inside the scoop somewhat. It appears that I have a ways to go before the cooling/cooling drag is optimized, but at least I have no worries about overheating. I'm still taking it easy on full throttle operation, the fastest the plane has been up to is 159 MPH @ 7100 RPM at 3800 feet. The plane was still accelerating but I'm still taking baby steps.

 

Thanks Tracy.