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From: "Barry Gardner" <barrygardner@gmail.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Turbonetics T04 rotary flies
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:25:56 -0600
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John,

Are you running that 46 mm Tial wastegate that you reported upon in November 
2005?

Barry Gardner
Wheaton, IL

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Slade" <sladerj@bellsouth.net>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 11:15 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Turbonetics T04 rotary flies


> After a lot of delay from out-of-town work, patio rebuilding and "cut & 
> paste" stainless steel work on the heat shield, I can finally report that 
> the new turbo T04 installation flies. The one issue I had on the 0.9 local 
> flight was an erroneous EGT reading. I installed a new sensor and it's 
> reading very low - 300F.
>
> Boost still has a tendency to run away above 44 MAP. I've been gradually 
> tweaking the boost controller toward minus on each ground run, but the 
> wastegate doesn't seem to be doing anything. So far I have about 1.5 hours 
> ground running on the turbo. I held her at 40 MAP for take off which was 
> more than enough to get me 80kts less than half way down the 3000' funway.
>
> Take off acceleration seems to be a little less than with the stock turbo. 
> There's no sign of oil or soot on the prop and the oil (recently changed) 
> is staying "oil color". With all the stock turbos the oil went black 
> within an hour of running.
>
> Perhaps now, finally, the fun begins.....
> Regards,
> John Slade
>
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