Bob,

That will be a great car! I was idling down to 800 rpm for a bit. I jockied the throttle a few times slightly and could idle anywhere from 800 to 1200 consistently and smoothly. Redrive never made any noise that we could hear, bout obviously we might miss that. I cant help myself to keep from giving it little more juice this weekend. Dont want any high revs, but would like to pull it up to 2000 and hear what it will sound like. Will be ever so careful! Bob Mears
Supermarine Spitfire


-----Original Message-----
From: Bob White <bob@bob-white.com>
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 3:55 pm
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Bob Mears



Hi Bob,

I would be interested in the idle speed as well.  I couldn't idle below
around 1600 or so in the plane but that was mostly because the redrive
started rattling.  In the Alpine (car) I will be putting the engine in,
I would like something below 1000 I think.  Also, a while back I asked Tracy if he could put a rev limiter function
in the EC2.  Since I won't have a load on the engine when I start it,
there isn't any protection against my own stupidity.  He said it's
already in there for his latest upgrades.  Anything over 7500 rpm will
cut fuel flow until the rpm drops below 7500, then turn it on again.
That should take some of the danger out of running without a prop, and
keep me from blowing the engine up in the car if I start it with my
foot holding the throttle half open.

Bob W. (Future home of my airplane engine attached.)


On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 07:38:02 +1000
"George Lendich" <lendich@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> > Bob,
> A Licence would be handy( or are you pulling our leg), however the aircraft isn't quite finished yet, so you have a little time.
> > Yes! exciting times! The exhaust sounds very quiet, I'm wondering if it's the interesting and unusual exhaust design ( which I have always liked since seeing it) or that it just at idle - it's seems a very low idle as well!
> George ( down under)
>   Here's the real first start.Had to edit it to shorten it....im really gonna have to get a pilots license
>   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo1fhLxtYI0
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