facthunter

Maybe find someone who works with Fibreglass and Have Him repair it. ? Just remove the deteriorated material and replace it with glass cloth and resin. . Nev

WHY would you need such a LARGE Balance Pipe? It is normally used where siamesed Inlet Ports exist like on the BMC Motors The Pulsing of the Carburettors is NOT even nor is the Fuel distribution That's fixed by Injection. The Balance pipe is no Magic fix. Save your Money. Nev

Carry on in Blissful Ignorance. Less than Normal power May easily have been a factor, Drift is NOT always BAD. Don't kill good discussions because a few feathers get ruffled. Any abnormal Running or vibration should be Investigated even IF it appears to Have come good. It's AN aeroplane. Nev

People can claim anything. I'd want verifiable evidence Before spending that Kind of Money and some way of coping with Expansion/ contraction compared with what it's FIRMLY Mounted to. Nev

And it's NOT really off the topic of the thread Engine related. Safety. BAK,. Nev

My reply has too many FACTS in it for you does it? What's personal in it FFS. It took Me a great effort to type it. Where else are People going to GET this stuff? The MISinformation was going to a High Level. It's IMPORTANT INFO . Where is it WRONG? Nev

Get Near a Merlin with a few revs on and repeat that. ON Load an Open AERO Engine exhaust makes Plenty of Noise. Plenty of People Lost their Hearing ( Including ME. Never Heard of any race engines Getting turned Back wards in any situation and I've had a lot to do with them. It's extremely Unlikely. Turning the Ignition OFF and then Back ON will result ina Lot Of Mixture ending in the exhaust and Muffler will explode and make Lots of Noise and EASILY Produce A Long Flame Out the tail pipe and scare the $#!t out of everybody. BACK Firing is when the Mixture in the intake and supercharger Ignites/ explodes and Subjects things to VERY High Pressure. Superchargers Fly Off the Block Car Vee Block s split. Con rods get shortened etc. High Pressures force Valves off their seat and subject the Engines to Loads they Cannot Take.. They May not Fail straight away But an Overstressed Part is a damaged part.

The 618 is not a very common Motor so why would I Know? I know it had problems with Crankshaft breakages and we are Going back a Fair way. Tuning, If you do it Properly you COULD end up with varying settings. Depends on how well each CYLINDER IS Pumping (Gas flowing). get it Leans there's a Hole in the Piston dear Lisa, a hole. Nev

To the 618. That is Odd and I can't see why it would BE. You have EGT gauges. Are the readings similar? The Main jets affect full and near full throttle. Nev

IF a Valves stick or drops in it doesn't Matter. Nev

Depends on whether they are BIG enough. EVERY Motorcycle I've fitted a filter to has to Be retuned and I fit Bigger ones than those. This is well Known. It doesn't take MUCH TO alter THE MIXTURE. Nev

Some filters may alter the Mixture if they are not Large enough or get clogged up, That's important with an aircraft. Nev

Vent Lateral is Another. You'd get many variable winds at such Places. The steep slope on the Landing to Me is the Most Notable aspect of the challenge. Nev

I am what I am. Who do you think YOU are? You DONT "KNOW" PEOPLE on the NET. You make a Guess based on your Own Prejudices YOU have Made a Judgement on Me, Of the cuff. I feel I'm required to constantly defend Myself and I DON'T like it one bit. .It's Clear a few of you don't Like Me. I can accept that If I have to. Some things Might be funny But after a while Having a GO at serious and safety related stuff $#1t$ me off Big time. A lot of stuff I've Posted Here has Never Been raised Before and Its REAL. IF you don't Like it Just Pass it BY. A lot of the things you Interpret as an attack is Not intended but I don't Mince words. BrendDAn I stand By everything I said about that Gyro.Nev

There's ONE Bristol Wrecked at the Bottom of a Hill. They Just removed the Engines and Left the rest there. In the Mid 60s I crewed DC4s to POM-LAE overnight LAE. Frequently we were about 500 Ft above the terrain over the OWEN Stanleys at about Flt LVL 150. If it wasn't VFR the LSALT was FL 170 coming back. The High speed selection for the Blowers was removed On OUR C47/DC4 Planes Guaranteeing we Couldn't Maintain Height If any engine failed. ALL approved BY CASA or DCA at the Time. ALSO the PNG Fleet operated on PK Charts for MAX Weights. ((Developmental) allowing them to be Overloaded compared to Mainland figures. How good is that? Nev