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Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 00:17:41 -0400
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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] First Start of Renesis 
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Congratulations, Dennis, first start is a milestone. Sounds like you 
will be flying before too long. Fred


At 10:39 PM 5/20/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>Wednesday I started my RX-8 Renesis engine for the first 
>time!!!  The engine is mounted on my almost complete RV-7A using one 
>of Fred's motor mounts.  I still need to mount the cowl to the 
>aircraft and duct the inlet to the radiator.  I'm using a 13 X 19 X 
>2.5" thick aluminum
>radiator from Griffin, the stock of cooler from an 89 RX-7, James 
>cowl for rotaries with the "shark" inlet below the spinner and my 
>coolers are mounted below the engine with the forward end high and 
>the aft end low.
>
>The engine ran fine at low rpm but would not run above 2000 rpm.  I 
>believe the mixture was too lean but I've not been able to improve 
>the situation with the mixture know.  I guess it's time to learn to 
>program the EC-2. - and also get the auto programming going.
>
>Bobby Hughes was here today and may post a picture of my engine and 
>me with my big grin.
>
>Dennis H.
>
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