Anti-Splat separator maintenance

Awhile back I installed the Anti-Splat air/oil separator. Last fall I got a packet from them regarding a AD, indicating the exhaust valve should be checked for coking, and a “emergency bypass” that they sent me be installed in case the exhaust valve become blocked. Apparently an RV-10 was forced down as the engine stopped due […]

Engine Exhast Pipe Wrapping

I’m just now posting pictures of it, but here is out exhaust wrap. This seems to have helped our temperatures, but it’s hard to say for sure how much. Based on everything we’ve done, I’d say probably 10 degrees on our oil temperature. Exhaust wrap to keep from radiating heat to oil sump

Exhaust Augmentors

We’ve decided to create an augmented exhaust system for our plane (see Buffalo Forge paper on augmenters, also under “Downloads”). I foresee a couple of benefits from this. First, we don’t have the ‘rooster-tail’ that the factory exhaust creates by dumping out directly down from the cowling near the firewall. This creates a major disturbance to […]

Installing Engine Exhaust Pipes

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 […]