2004 Flight from KKLS

2004 Flight from KKLS
This photo is from when I was flying the airplane out of Longview, WA. This was taken early in the morning..

RV-6 #25188 in flight

RV-6 #25188 in flight
Doug Eves sent this photo of the Ol' girl in flight. Taken from the ground, this is a great shot. You can see he is "relaxing" in his office in the sky...

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Installing all of the probes

I have taken the time to install all of the engine probes from my JPI EDM-700. It's real nice doing it now of the engine stand because I can rotate it around in a circle and get at all of the parts. I drilled the exhaust pipes for the EGT probes and made sure that they are all the same distance down from the head. I called Don Rivera at AFP and am looking at getting my fuel injection kit today. You can tune your fuel injection once you start flying by adjusting the orfice size of your injector nozzles to each cylinder. With the 4 into 1 exhaust and doing the tuning, I should be able to dial my temps to within about a few degrees on one another. I did not tune my last engine and the temps are within 20 degrees most of the time. Thats still damn good and is almost not worth messing with. We'll see how this one works out. When I get my fuel injection kit I will document how this goes on. It's pretty neat to install one and it doesn't take a lot time. The hardest part is bending the lines for the nozzles and attaching them to the cylinders. You just have to make sure you don't kink them. I had a few that didn't match up to what Don had in the kit and he'll just send you one to your length. AFP is great company to deal with and they stand behind their stuff.