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Brian,

Your symptoms are exactly what I fought with for over a year with my 20B. The problem turned out to be the CAS. I had thought it would be a big improvement to go with the Renesis type CAS, so I had Tracy convert my EC-2 to work with the crank mount CAS, and I added a trigger wheel and bracket to the front of my engine. Depending on the sensor gap and the phase of the moon, it would run great up to the upper 5000's, then it would start mis-firing badly. No amount of tuning would correct the problem. This may not be your exact scenario, but I hope it will help you determine if it is ignition or fuel. My guess is ignition.

Oh, to fix my problem, I had Tracy convert my EC-2 back to work with the old "distributor" style CAS, reinstalled the old CAS, and that corrected the probmel. It now runs great up to > 70000 rpm.

Mark

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:19 PM, <bktrub@aol.com> wrote:

I'm going to ground my airplane until I get to the bottom of this. I can tune it on the ground and it will run just fine all the way from idle to full throttle. I get about 5300 rpm at full throttle at 29 in hg. MP. I have 12 hours in the air so far but can't get past this issue. Other than this, the plane is an absolute joy.

When I get off the ground, when I go through around 5400 RPM, I start to get stumbling and engine roughness. At this RPM I am about 18 inches MP. Just below this point, I am making about 50% power and the engine will run smoothly.

I went to another airport and had a lot of roughness on takeoff, but I am used to it and so continued on my way to my home airport. When I got back I found out that someone at the other airport wanted to report me to FSDO because he thought my engine was going to blow up, but he didn't get my tail number.

So, I thought I had it sorted out before I flew today, but it's back to the drawing board. I've tried both leaning and enriching the mixture at all throttle settings, but to no avail. At and above 5400 rpm I start getting all sorts of roughness so I think that it has to be an ignition issue. My injector wiring is separated from my coil wiring, but could I be getting inductance between the different coil wiring?

I have a 93 13 BREW normally aspirated, 2.85 RWS redrive, EM2, EC2, 88x 74 CAtto Prop. This is getting to be really frustrating. It's got to be something simple that I'm overlooking. I don't know anyone with an ocilliscope, and have never used one.

Brian Trubee