----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin & Bev Rainey" <crain...@cfl.rr.com> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 11:24 AM Subject: KR> FLY SAFE VS RISK MANAGEMENT
No flame war necessary or considered As some of you may know, I am building a modified KR2 with a supercharge, fuel injected 1915 cc VW engine, step by step. I would say VW but it not any longer a VW it's got all American performance and experimental aircraft after market components. I will have a full electronics fuel and ignition computerized management system using a PC, which will allow me to make on the fly engine tuning.[intact the software has a feature called auto-tune]. My backup system will be a magneto fixed timing and a gravity fad fuel induction with manual controls, this will get me home. The timing devices are a crank shaft position sensor and a distributor, that tells the computer which cylinder is firing. The system is a off the shelf after market system for racing applications.[not auto manufacture related] The Crank Shaft and Connecting Rods are balanced to within 1/2 gram tolerance. A lot of other details are incorporated, but to numerous to itemize. That's my plans, it's not finished yet because I am receiving my last shipment of ceramic coated combustion chamber components and polycoated bearings from Polydyn this week. In fact all the hot and cold manifolds are ceramic coated. The casing is going out for powder-coating next week [it's pay as you go for me]. Over the past 3 years or so I've researched and invested some money in the little joule. Right or wrong this is where I am going, and it going to be fun. I've taken photos but don't have time to upload them. KRRon
