What have you found to be the best hot start procedure for a TSIO 550, with mags, in an IVP? I'm not talking immediately after engine shut down, but shut down on a hot tarmac after 30 to 40 minutes so the fuel lines are nice and hot and boiling the internal fuel.
Thanks, John
IVP 413AJ

1. Wide open throttle, mixture full rich and high boost on for a few seconds.  Just long enough to fill the lines with fuel. If fuel runs out the sniffle valve the high boost was on too long.
2. Leave throttle near wide open and pull mixture to idle cut off.

3. Turn low boost on and immediately start cranking engine while pushing in the mixture knob slowing until engine fires.

Be prepared to retard the throttle as the engine speed will go quite high if you get a clean start.  Leave the low boost on for several minutes and control idle quality with the mixture knob. Once the idle quality is good, the low boost electric fuel pump can be turned off.

You can NOT use the “old” method of WOT, mixture at idle cut off and run the high boost electric pump for 30 seconds. The new Continental fuel pumps will allow a LOT of fuel to flow at cranking speeds and the mixture in idle cut off.  I guess you can use this method if you want 2 gallons of 100LL under the plane.  I’m guessing it was about 2 gallons I mopped up.

Craig Berland

Arizona (lots of hot starts)

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