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From: "Ed Anderson" <eanderson@carolina.rr.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: RX-8 coil caution
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:11:35 -0500
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$35!!!!   I remember when a friend ordered a new leading coil for his 13B 
back about 3 years ago - $500!!!   Fortunately, I got to him in time to 
cancel the order and shipped him one of the several I had laying around.

Ed
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Haverlah" <clouduster@austin.rr.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 12:04 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: RX-8 coil caution


> I've got about 80 in flight hours on my Renesis RX-8 coils.  No problems 
> so far.  I did burn one up during ground tests when I had a crank angle 
> sensor /ECU problem before Tracy figured out the fix.  I was very 
> supprised when I bought a new coil from the local Mazda dealer for about 
> $35.00!!
>
> Dennis H.
> RV-7A
> Renesis
> Tracy's goodies.
>
> Tracy Crook wrote:
>
>> FWIW, I report the following just for general interest and a heads-up, 
>> not as a warning not to use RX-8 Renesis coils (at least not yet).
>>  From the car racing corwd, I have been getting a lot of reports and 
>> requests for information about using LS-1 coils on RX-8 cars.  They have 
>> been having some failures of Renesis coils and are asking if the LS-1 
>> coils will work on the stock ECU.  There is also a rumor of Mazda coming 
>> out with updated RX-8 coils, possibly as a result of these failures.
>>  The only report I have of problems with Renesis coils on aircraft was 
>> from Ian Beedle who had some fail on his plane.  It was thought that this 
>> was due to his EC2 being programmed for LS-1 coils but this may not be 
>> the case in light of these reports.
>>  I am using 6 Renesis coils on my 20B with about 15 hours of ground 
>> testing, no problems so far.
>>  Tracy
>>
>
>
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