VairHeads, This is one of those things that I've just got to shout about (everybody within a few miles has probably heard me already), but I just fired up my engine for the first time on my airframe, and it was awesome! I just finished hooking up the throttle cable, making all the plug wires, bolted on the prop, and thought I'd give it a shot and see what happened. As a former mechanic (maybe once a mechanic, always a mechanic) I'd already statically timed it so the timing was probably perfect already. [I've never understood why some people goof around with a misfiring engine while trying to "guess" where the timing is, especially with a prop a few inches away.]
It fired right up on about the third blade (I'm not making this up) and ran smoothly at idle for the few seconds 'til I shut it off. It blew the contents of my shop all over the place, and the dust cloud is still drifting around! I guess next I'm going to fill the brakes with fluid and tomorrow it'll be outside tied to a big oak tree, trying to get a feel for what I need to do to my carb to get it jetted correctly, and maybe some real testing! WooooooHoooooo.... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
