Here I’m fitting up the prototyping components from Aircraft Exhaust.Net. They sent use 6 stubs to mount to the engine exhaust ports and a collector, though I elected not to use the collector. The nice thing about this system, is you can get what you think you want exactly in cheap PVC, and then send […]
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The fuel servo installation has been fun. I ended up doing a fair amount of research, and even bought “Aircraft Fuel Metering Systems” from Aircraft Technical Books to make sure I knew what was going on here. Here’s a nice drawing I found. From the schematic you can see that the manual mixture control arm is nearest […]
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Coming out of the sump is a fuel shutoff valve, ours is controlled remotely from a T-handled lever glassed into a pocket on the keel and then exits the firewall through a bulkhead fitting. On the firewall, the fuel tubing goes to a cleanable strainer, the electric boost pump, and then to a Floscan fuel […]
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We have to make a mating flange for the fuel servo, where the fuel is mixed with induction air. Here I’ve taken a piece of scrap aluminum with a paint cap glue to it, and then waxed and covered with a mess of BID. Once cured, just pop it all apart and trim. Fuel Servo […]
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The engine plenum that we showed you above was a little too big, it was for the 300HP IO-540-K “angle-valve” motor. We have the IO-540-D, which is normally a 260HP motor, although ours is pumped up with high compression pistons and electronic ignition to above 300HP. Here are pictures of us glassing the fore and […]
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We purchased a dual Plasma III system from Klaus at LightSpeed Engineering. I think it’s the finest on the market, and the two units talk to each other to set the timing advance in flight, and have a remote display of all needed parameters on the instrument panel. Luckily, our friends at Magnum mounted most […]
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