phil brookman wrote: > as you say cyl 6 is cool but you will fix that i am sure > oil temps look high 237- this could be a problem
Number six is easy. It can be fixed with a four inch long piece of aluminum tape. Oil temp is easy to fix too. I just need to install a more efficient inlet to the cooler. Right now I'm robbing cylinder cooling air from 1,3,and 5 to pay the oil cooler, and by summer I'll give the cooler a dedicated inlet down on a high pressure part of the cowling. And the inlet is only half the size of the 2" scat tube, so I'm wasting a lot of potential cooling. But I don't think 237F is too high. Everything I've ever read on oil temp says that oil needs to get above 212F to boil off water vapor. 25 degrees isn't that much higher than 212. I'm picking up oil temps at the hottest place in the engine, right after the oil pump sucks it out of the pan, unlike some folks who get it after the cooler. The weather's supposed to be great this weekend, and I'm planning on flying to LA for Thanksgiving (Lower Alabama)... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
