-------------- Original message from "jbker@juno.com" <jbker@juno.com>: --------------

Was not the magic bullet that I was looking for, but considerably better than previous cowl flap.

Flew in the closed position, but is still a very large exit area, will measure the opening before next flight (hopefully Wed. if tropical depression doesn't spoil the weather). Did not take much for data, just enjoyed climb to 6500 feet AGL and the coolant temp stabilized below the broken cumulus (amb temp above 90 F) at 222 F. Once on top of cloud in cooler temp, came down to 217 F and then at WOT level is was decreasing toward 200 but did not want the low time engine since Bruce put new seals in to get too high in rpm. It was creeping toward 6K when I leaned it back considerably from peak power.

Beautiful flying day! flew about 30 minutes and landed to take a look under the cowl.

Everything looked good except for a few drops of coolant on port side so have got to determine where it came from.

Need to get the 12 volt cig lighter plug mounted and get the Ipaq ready to do some minor cross country flying.

Bernie