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- - - - Four new ECI Titanium cylinders arriving tomorrow. What's the recommended break-in procedure?
Ask me if I'm "wired," (and poorer).
HR
Ask me if I'm "wired," (and poorer).
HR
Each cylinder kit will have a booklet in the box,, Read it, follow the instructions.- - - - Four new ECI Titanium cylinders arriving tomorrow. What's the recommended break-in procedure?
Ask me if I'm "wired," (and poorer).
HR
- - - - but will they make my F-150 run any better? Off to Twitchell's Airport to deliver.
HR
There were no warnings of problems. The bird was just at Twitchell's for Annual, 11 of which they've done previously; so they KNOW that plane. Usually, "Piece of cake." The A & P called last Friday with "Good news and bad news." The good news was that the plane, in general, is in fine shape; only 136 hours on the pristine bottom end. The bad news was that three cylinders each had a crack. "Why?" "Age; those are the original 1970 cylinders, with 3500 hours(and one top job). The 4th jug was fine; however, I'll now have four identical units(my choice), and new as opposed to re-mans(or whatever the terminology).
The "Ouch" part? ) ?? The former USN pilot who is using my plane to get a CFI rating -- having been a USN Instructor -- presently with ratings up to ATP and having thousands of hours as a Navy pilot, seems to envision flying my plane another 50, maybe 100 hours, shall we say, "is assisting." Things could be worse.
HR
Ouch.
Any STC to up the HP while you are at it?
Actually, one does gain some small HP with the ECI cylinders. Because the timing can be reset to stock 28 DBTC from the reduiced 24 AD mandated if you have the weak Continental cylinders.
(Please don't show that sentence to my 4th grade english teacher!)
that's only one the 0-200 his engine is a Lycoming 0-320 AD to retard the timing did not apply.
You were right about a 0-200.Must have been daydreaming again!
April 13: The bird's been flown twice today; cowl off after first flight -- everything tight -- then 2nd flight. Shortly on my way to bring her back to Wiscasset KIWI, home base.
Yahoo!
HR