X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from [66.219.56.245] (HELO mail.qnsi.net) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.8) with ESMTP id 4416155 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:32:02 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.219.56.245; envelope-from=bhughes@qnsi.net X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Return-Receipt-To: "Bobby J. Hughes" Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Bad rotary week MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01CB329B.211A2F78" Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 17:33:36 -0600 Disposition-Notification-To: "Bobby J. Hughes" Message-ID: <74120FDE88CAFE4DBDA8814BCE20A3F3208AAF@qnsi-mail.qnsi.net> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [FlyRotary] Bad rotary week thread-index: AcsylIk1rnrTQ8mVRhe6Cdxl2i1gYgABPV+A References: From: "Bobby J. Hughes" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01CB329B.211A2F78 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dwayne, =20 My super charged renesis uses 1 oz per gallon of 2 stroke oil. So it's very likely David is using 1 quart every 5 hours. Question is 2-stroke or sump? No indication I am using any sump oil. But I only have about 35 flight hours. I do have a small internal coolant leak and need to replace an o-ring when my fiberglass work is finished. I would choose the renesis side port exhaust over a peripheral port exhaust any day for our application.=20 =20 Bobby Hughes ________________________________ From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Dwayne Parkinson Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 4:43 PM To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: [FlyRotary] Bad rotary week For anyone hoping that a 16X would show up any time soon: not ... gonna ... happen. No RX7 and the RX8 is still powered by the Renesis for 2011. http://www.mazdausamedia.com/content/2011-mazda-vehicles-glance =20 As if that's not bad enough, when I was at Oshkosh I took in David Atkins rotary seminar. I came away pretty depressed thinking that I probably won't put a rotary engine in my airplane. Is everyone else really using 1 quart of oil every 5 hours? He also didn't have much good to say about the Renesis in an aviation application which leads me to conclude that the 16X will fare even worse in aviation applications as it is tweaked to meet higher EPA requirements and produce more low end torque. Is anyone but Tracy using a Renesis? I'd really like to know what HP you're getting, what the fuel burn is and how it's holding up. Thanks, Dwayne P.S. I couldn't find any rotary planes on the field at Oshkosh. Perhaps they sank into the mud. ------_=_NextPart_001_01CB329B.211A2F78 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Dwayne,

My super charged renesis uses 1 oz per gallon = of 2 stroke=20 oil. So it's very likely David is using 1 quart every 5 hours. Question = is=20 2-stroke or sump? No indication I am using any sump oil. But I only have = about=20 35 flight hours. I do have a small internal coolant leak and need = to=20 replace an o-ring when my fiberglass work is finished. I would choose = the=20 renesis side port exhaust over a peripheral port exhaust any day for our = application.

Bobby Hughes

From: Rotary motors in aircraft=20 [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Dwayne=20 Parkinson
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 4:43 PM
To: = Rotary=20 motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Bad rotary=20 week

For = anyone hoping=20 that a 16X would show up any time soon: not ... gonna ... happen. = No=20 RX7 and the RX8 is still powered by the Renesis for 2011.

= http://www.mazdausamedia.com/content/2011-mazda-= vehicles-glance

As if = that's not bad=20 enough, when I was at Oshkosh I took in David Atkins rotary seminar. = I=20 came away pretty depressed thinking that I probably won't put a rotary = engine in=20 my airplane. Is everyone else really using 1 quart of oil every 5 = hours?=20 He also=20 didn't have much good to say about the Renesis in an aviation = application which=20 leads me to conclude that the 16X will fare even worse in aviation = applications=20 as it is tweaked to meet higher EPA requirements and produce more low = end=20 torque.

Is = anyone but Tracy=20 using a Renesis? I'd really like to know what HP you're getting, = what the=20 fuel burn is and how it's holding up.

Thanks,

Dwayne

P.S. = I=20 couldn't find any rotary planes on the field at Oshkosh. Perhaps = they sank=20 into the mud.

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