We purchased a CozyGirrrls air/oil separator for our engine and mounted to the engine mount with Adel clamps for now. We also just have the oil draining into a cup, though I hope to get a member of our EAA chapter to weld a nipple on one of my oil drain-back tubes so I can […]
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We’re fighting engine RPMs, have been for some time. Here are a couple of interesting pictures. We needed to check the timing of our LSE plasma III system. The book says to grab a timing light and shine it on the back of the flywheel with a nice picture of Klaus doing just that…. So, […]
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Here is something else we ran into. After having trouble building RPM and having a very rough running engine that seemed to want to run very lean, and ran relatively well at idle, but not at WOT. We tested the fuel flow from the injectors and found the below. Very uneven flow. After removing the […]
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The door cover panels are pre-molded by the factory. There’s a hump where the door handle comes through, but figuring out where exactly was a bit challenging, so I ended up needing to close up my first hole a bit. Also, stealing an idea from my buddy Andy, I used left-over foam with a light BID […]
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You’ve got to have a data plate installed to be legal to fly. Our first data plate came form Aircraft Spruce, though later we’d look to get a specialized plate. For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim […]
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The landing light holder was included as a “supplement” to the kit. We cut the pre-molded hole and bonded the lamp holder into the fuselage with structural adhesive while we were at the factory for the Head Start program. This lamp kit included a set of springs designed to hold the bulb in and a plexiglass lens […]
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