X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com X-PolluStop-Diagnostic: (direct reply)\eX-PolluStop-Score: 0.00\eX-PolluStop: Scanned with Niversoft PolluStop 2.1 RC1, http://www.niversoft.com/pollustop Return-Path: Received: from [24.25.9.100] (HELO ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c4) with ESMTP id 866475 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:05:48 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=24.25.9.100; envelope-from=eanderson@carolina.rr.com Received: from edward2 (cpe-024-074-185-127.carolina.res.rr.com [24.74.185.127]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with SMTP id j3CJ51Lw025783 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:05:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <003301c53f92$89b89e40$2402a8c0@edward2> From: "Ed Anderson" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" References: Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Latest on the Motor Trouble Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:05:05 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Don't know, Tim. The conventional wisdom is that NA engines (I have a turbo block but no turbo) are really not susceptible to detonation. Besides that the B9EGV is a racing plug (states it on the box) and of course they are designed to run much colder than a normal plug. However, I could find no evidence of FOD other than that caused by the broken piece of apex seal. Ed A ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Andres" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 10:23 AM Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Latest on the Motor Trouble > Ed Anderson wrote: > > > But, clearly something took out the apex seals on #1, no question > > about that when one of them is in three pieces. Its beginning to look > > less likely that the spark plugs were responsible - just a coincident > > on the timing. > > Ed is it possible detonation caused this? If I understand correctly you > had the wrong plugs installed, perhaps a heat range issue with the > plugs. Actually this would then be preignition. > Tim Andres > > > >> Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ > >> Archive: http://lancaironline.net/lists/flyrotary/List.html >