Hi Steve,

    Always good to hear that things have not regressed after 4 months {:>).
I once let my old 6 port engine remain idle for only six weeks and the apex
seals oxidized in their slots.  After a week of poking through the exhaust
port, I managed to free 5 of the 6, but eventually had to take the engine
off to find that leaving the intake manifold off after flooding the engine
(HALTECH EFI went bad and opened the injectors) apparently caused the apex
seals to lightly rust.  The gasoline that flooded the engine apparently
washed the oil off the seals and my having taken the intake manifold off
left it exposed to some hot and high humidity days.

Moral of the story, I don't leave the intakes exposed especially if you
might have flooded the engine and washed the protective oil coating off.  I
turn the engine over ever two weeks regardless of whether I fly or not.

Perhaps a drag chute is in order.  Always nice to have that kind of power.
What is your propeller parameters?

Ed

Ed Anderson
RV-6A N494BW Rotary Powered
Matthews, NC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Brooks" <steve@tsisp.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 6:45 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] It Still Runs


> I took my plane outside today after 4 months of being inside doing the
> finishing.  It is now ready to be primed, and the weather is good, so I
took
> everything outside to work on it.  It had been 4 months since I had last
> started the rotary, and it hadn't been started since I plumbed the turbo
> into the intake system, so I was anxious to see how that was going to work
> out.
>
> The engine started after about 2 revolutions, and though a little rough to
> start, smoothed out nicely.  The mixture gauge shows it's a little on the
> rich side, but I hadn't done much tuning on the EC2, since the turbo was
> connected up to the intake yet.  I'm going to have to read Tracy's
> instructions again on how to do it, so that I get it running a little
> leaner.  It's so rich that the control seems to have little effect.
>
> At ant rate, I ran the engine 2 or three times, topping off the coolant
each
> time.  On the third run, I ran it up to 3500, for a few seconds, and then
> back down (it's idling about 2000 rpms).  The next run up, I ran it up to
> 4000, and with the brakes locked, the tires started sliding in the grass.
> WOW, does the turbo add power !  I'll run it some more tomorrow, but I'll
> take it to the driveway, which is asphalt before running up too many RPM's
>
> I can't wait to fly this thing.  It seems to have more power than I
imagined
> it would, and it should scoot down the runway pretty good.
>
> Steve Brooks
> Cozy MKIV 13BT
> ready for primer (great - something else to sand)
>
>
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