----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 10:49
AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re:
spreadsheet
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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