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Ed,
Thanx for the spreadsheet.
Work has finally slowed up to where I can get some
serious time on the plane. Put the most of the long block together this
week. I was putting the last rotor in the rotor housing when a
corner seal "jumped" off the rotor, hit the floor and split in two. The
3mm Hurleys are a pain to install. The first spring is easy, the second
one hits a part of the two piece on the bottom and won't seat correctly. You
pull out the rotor and do it again until all 3 have the second spring fitting
correctly. A little bit of glue holding the two pieces together makes it
much easier. I have my turbo sitting in the garage, right next to Tracy's RD1B.
After talking with Tracy I'm adding one spacer do to the extra HP. The MM came
set up for a 13b rear plate and not the 20b that I have. A minor problem.
My Meziere WP 430 water pump should be here this week. A friend of mine is
building the adapter plate. He's so busy I may have to do it myself.
Fortunately I have a fairly large area to install the turbo. Plan A is to mount
the turbo fairly tight to the intake manifold by the first rotor. It will be
anchored on the mount with a second piece spring loaded to keep the
expansion/contractions down. The MM is one of Jerry Heys Universal MM. I really
like it. Paul may have another tangent going on MM but this works wonderfully
for my anchor points on the firewall. I have a TWM 3003 throttle body.
I'll be doing this with 3 injectors, one per rotor. May not idle all that well
tho . The injectors put out 72 pounds at 45psi. Plan on putting the radiator and
oil cooler under the engine. I'm going to have Ed Klepis weld up custom
radiators that will fit in a "box" suspended like the way Rusty is doing. The
oil cooler will be on the cool side of the plane running the long way. I'd
never get this built if I wait for the latest and greatest....
Anything having to do with Murphy is not
fun,work. Everything else is enjoyable.
Murphy is still driving me nuts. I didn't know that
cable was made out of gold. The tell you to cut a piece x inches long. It should
be two inches longer, they obviously aren't worried about trimming them up. I'll
be moving alot of stuff out of the garage this summer to get the
tail on the plane. The elevator needs 11' of room. So does my wife's car.
Plan A is to have the engine running, tail assembly complete, before going
out to the hangar. All it will need is to have the wings put on. Looking
at GRT glass for the six pack, Tracy's EC2 and his EM2 for engine stuff.
Setting it up for amphibs. I have the rear
spuds in. Holes to get all the other stuff in when it comes time to do it.
The big catch is that my hangar door is 3" to low to get it in. The
cure is a $3000 door...
We had 3 weeks of below zero weather here that
really kept me out of the shop.
During Oshkosh this year I'm going to have a rotor
head nite. Thursday or Friday. Not sure if it will be at the house,
hangar, or somewhere in Oshkosh. Thinking about mode now. It'll be hard to keep
up Laura.......
I was going to send this to you privately, but
maybe someone will find some entertainment in it.
Barny
MGDQ 20bt
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 6:13
PM
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary]
spreadsheet
Hi Barry, how are things going
Ed Anderson
RV-6A N494BW Rotary Powered
Matthews, NC
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 9:59
AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] spreadsheet
Ed,
Barny
MGDQ 20bt
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