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Ed Anderson wrote:

 Gee,
   Everytime someone does a calculation on my horsepower, I find my
self flying on much less HP than I had thought.  Pretty soon I will find
myself flying without any HP and then think of the gasoline I will save
{:>).

  I forget offhand which prop make Jim uses, but I do recall it is a
well know and respected one.

  I've been talking about junking my old homemade intake manifold to
try something different for a long time, but something else always seemed to
take priority... like cooling the oil, moving to NC, getting a hangar built,
etc.  But, the next thing on my priority list after the hangar is to yank
the homemade lower intake manifold and try something different.

  In the meantime, I think my decision not to take along a passenger has
been confirmed as a wise choice given my limited HP and performance.  But,
clearly this is not satisfactory.

  Since I have confirmed the fuel flow on a number of occassions and it
has never been higher than 9.8 GPH, it certainly looks like my engine is not
sucking fuel at the rate to make the HP desired.  The engine does not give
any indication of running lean so it may be that for the amount of air it is
intaking the fuel mixture is OK, its just not intaking as much air as it
should.

 Well, going out to work on making the oil cooler air intake pretty and
taking some measurements for a new oil pan and intake manifold

Best Regards

Ed Anderson
Matthew NC

 
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