VairHeads, I made a trip to my father's sod strip again yesterday, and hit the 180 hour milestone on my 2700cc engine, 220 hours for the KR altogether. On the way down I was at 9500' throttled back to 110 mph IAS (128 mph TAS) and burning 3.0 gallons per hour at 2850 rpm, which is 43 mpg. When I got back I dumped the oil and did a differential compression check (pretty good, except one cylinder is down to 65/80 due to some kind of ring blowby), and installed new plugs. The plugs looked pretty good, except one of them had a little buildup on it (not the low one). Not bad for 130 hours of abuse (I swapped them out after 50 hours, for some reason). I have a feeling I'm going to rack up a lot more hours in the next three or four months.
I'm going to take it down for a few days to improve cabin cooling, install the GPS into the panel, fix the radio, and do a few other things I should have been doing instead of flying the crap out of it. I took another pretty nice picture of his 3600' long sod strip at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/flights/060513050m.jpg ... Mark Langford, Harvest, AL see homebuilt airplane at http://www.N56ML.com email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
