I am interested in your top mounted carb, Virg
I think that's because it's mounted below your engine. Heat from
the engine is forced/drawn into the low pressure side. Up on top, my
Ellison gets a steady stream of fresh intake air and I 've never had
any problem with vapor lock or h
On 2/6/2015 8:12 PM, Adam Tippin via KRnet wrote:
> Forgive my ignorance, but are you getting the blast tube air from Ram Air and
> does it have its own air intake in the cowling.
> Sorry, but i try to never assume any thing.
Hi Adam,
On the Glastar, the cooling baffles on the Lyc O-320 go d
Forgive my ignorance, but are you getting the blast tube air from Ram Air and
does it have its own air intake in the cowling.
Sorry, but i try to never assume any thing.
> On Feb 6, 2015, at 5:33 PM, Mike Stirewalt via KRnet list.krnet.org> wrote:
>
> DJ said,
>
>> "On my (Rotec) installation
DJ said,
> "On my (Rotec) installation, I have a one inch blast tube pointed at
the regulator, and a second one pointing at the TBI itself. So far no
vapor lock issues."
Mark said,
> "Regarding vapor lock, it happens on Ellisons as well, as I discovered
early on with N56ML."
I think that's b
I probably should have mentioned that there's a lot more on this subject
at http://www.n56ml.com/fuel/ ...
Mark Langford
ML at N56ML.com
http://www.n56ml.com
I've run about 5000 gallons of fuel through the Ellison EFS-3A carb on
N56ML (do the math on that...more than it cost to build the plane). I
figure about 1000 of it was with 10% ethanol, with the vast majority 93
octane from the Raceway down the street,and a little 100LL when I'm
flying long-d
>. I called Chevron up in San Francisco and the fellow said it has 8% ethanol
>but that probably varies with the season.
Ethanol will eat up your fiberglass (epoxy) tanks also.
For gravity feed systems, make sure you check with engine run
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