Just for the dyno Jerry. So far I have not received
a sketch of the cowl from Mark. However I do have a

sketch and pictures of Don Dunbar's Mustang II. Looks
like plenty of room.


Paul,

I completely forgot that you were waiting on that
firewall schematic from us. Far too much time spent
cabling up the wiring harness in single color wire
while trying to get everything ready in time.

The Muffler that Jerry Hey made up should arrive
tomorrow morning before 10:30am.. so hopefully the
wiring harness has checked out OK and you'll have
something to test shortly.

As for the Cowl design.. I'm still hoping that Will at
James Aircraft will be interested in adapting his
Mustang II cowl for this application. We're at a point
where I need to follow up from a conversation we had
last year.... [Will we're ready to commission one if
you're interested!]

Paul, I'll scan in a copy of that schematic and email
it to you.. I just need to find someone with a large
enough scanner....

Mark

Take a picture with a digital camera. Much easier.

BTW that manifold is not flight quality. Just R&D and prototype.
I am not happy with the way it came out. New injector holders will
fix the problem. More on those soon. The wiring is done.
Every thing is done. We will mount the engine on the dyno tomorrow.
We had to redo the fuel system on the dyno for fuel injection
because everything was set up for carbs. We can't run it during the
week for noise reasons so Saturday looks like the first runs if your
wiring is correct :) Everybody at Mazdatrix is excited about this
engine and they are very confident it is going to generate a bunch
of power. I want to thank you for sponsoring this project as this
is a large increment in the power to weight ratio of the Wankel
aircraft engine.

We won't run the muffler at first as Dave has a reference set of
headers he wants to try. That will give us a frame of reference
for all the other engines he has been dynoing lately.

BTW the guys from Idemitsu Oil Japan showed up with the US distributor.
They were very intersted in your engine. They knew all about the use
of the rotary engine in aircraft. I am sure they will go back to
Japan and copy the slide throttle for car racing over there. :)

Paul Lamar


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