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As part of the purchase of a hanger at Sunrise Beach Airport 2KL near Austin, TX I will soon be the owner of an unstarted 2008 CH601XL quickbuild kit with all the available options. The kit was never ...

Thanks to everyone who responded. All the information is appreciated. I was able to get a good look at a finished 601 at Hicks Airfield in Fort Worth. It is a beautiful plane but I really want to bu ...

Thanks to everyone who responded. All the information is appreciated. I was able to get a good look at a finished 601 at Hicks Airfield in Fort Worth. It is a beautiful plane but I really want to bu ...

I am buying a hanger west of Austin, TX. It is an estate sale and includes an un-started 2008 bought 601XL quickbuild kit with all options. I have read up on the wing and main spar modification. I w ...

Barry, your response is one of the best ever! I agree with you on not looking a gift horse in the mouth. Sometimes things just don't make sense but the engineer in me (and former Navy Nuke too) just ...

Mel, you are correct. Cessna Centurions are an example. I think the original poster though was talking about a fuel injected RV-6 and Barry Check 6 was talking about a fuel injected RV-7A with fuel ...

Ralph:

There are a few issues that can cause this type of result.
1 - Restricted fuel line.

4 - Clogged filters.

6 - FUZZ floating around in the fuel distribution system.

Story: I ha ...

I have an O-360-A1F6D engine on my RV-8. In early summer the engine developed an oil leak. We finally narrowed the source down to the prop governor area and changed gaskets a couple of times but the ...

I bought an RV-8 in 2007. The engine started as a O-360-A1F6D in a Cardinal. The builder of the RV rebuilt the engine and converted it to fuel injection but it is basically an O-360-A1F6D.

A year ...

Perhaps disconnect each strobe power supply one at a time and see if the system still trips. You might find out one of the power supplies is bad. This assumes you have a separate power supply for eac ...

The rear two - 3 and 4. Pretty common. They are not bad in cruise but
here in Texas, when it's hot, the cylinders get hotter than I'd like but
still within limits. I just need to do a cruise clim ...

Thanks. Good information.

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:47 PM, <n355tc@comcast.net ([email]n355tc@comcast.net[/email])> wrote:
[quote]I'm not flying yet but I know of no problems with ...

Thank you for the additional information. In hot weather my oil runs about 200 in cruise and that seems ok to me. It never goes above 215 in climb, but two CHTs go to about 410 or 415 in climb on ...

Do they work well? Do you get good cooling from the oil cooler? On Aug 26, 2014 4:12 PM, <n355tc@comcast.net ([email]n355tc@comcast.net[/email])> wrote:[quote] You are correct. They are for c ...

At Oshkosh this year I noticed that a lot of Glasair IIIs have a louver on the right side of the cowl. I don't have a Glasair - I fly an RV-8 but I like to look at other people's planes and learn fro ...

I found a cracked flange on the intake pipe to #4 cylinder on my IO-360-M1A engine over the weekend.

1) does someone have this pipe or a set of 4 they would sell?
2) can someone suggest a source f ...

Here is an article on the cause of the battery fire on the JAL 787.

http://tinyurl.com/am27on3

Kevin,

I've been on your site a lot today reading about this. Next weekend if weather permits I will collect a lot of Numbers to plug into your speadsheet to see about IAS and TAS. I suspect the T ...

One big question:

Does changing the geometry of the static port change indicated altitude when flying?

It seems like if we change the static pressure by applying washers or lips we would change ...

I worked through the switch as best I could with an ohm meter before I posted. It was tough going because the switches were in the panel and wired up to the wig-wag flasher. There was not a lot of ro ...