Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #54133
From: Mark Steitle <msteitle@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Miss above staging point.
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 20:50:04 -0600
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Bill, 

How do the coils look (underneath)?  Are there dark areas in the potting material where they have gotten hot?  There is a history of coil failures in the RX-8's after about 30k miles.    

How many hours on the plugs/wires?  How do they look?

Mark  

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Bill Bradburry <bbradburry@bellsouth.net> wrote:

Mark,

 

I have the stock Renesis coils.

 

Bill B

 


From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Mark Steitle
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 6:19 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Miss above staging point.

 

Bill, 

 

Which coils are you running?  I chased an intermittent miss which occurred in the 6000 -7000 range.  I upgraded to the LS2 "Yukon" coils and the miss was gone.  

 

Mark S.

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Bill Bradburry <bbradburry@bellsouth.net> wrote:

I have developed a miss above the staging point.  The fuel pressure seems ok, the mixture also seems ok.  I am at a loss.

 

To try and troubleshoot, I am considering getting above the staging point and disabling the primaries and secondaries to see if I can identify which is the cause.  Since it runs ok below the stage, I assume it is not the primaries.

 

I recently changed my fuel filters and installed a large canister filter.  There seems a possibility  that I introduced some contamination that clogged an injector.  Other wise it seems it must be spark related.  This just happened one flight ago.  The engine was running fine, till that last takeoff.  It was missing and would only get about 6300 rpm.  After take off, I turned the prop back and slowed the engine down to below that number and it smoothed out and ran fine the res of the flight.  Today while taxiing around, I noticed that the miss was back.

 

Opinions welcomed.

 

Bill B

 

 

 


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