Dave, I originally had the return from seperator dumping back into my oil tank but did not want that nasty used "stuff" back in my engine. I too still have that capability but choose not to use it. Ar

Sorry James, Geoff did come back late that same afternoon. He determined he had a gauge or electrical failure. Jim Patillo LVK. his

Guys, As some of you are aware, Mark Summers has researched alot of VG info, looking for the best vortex generator installation possible on a GU canard. His goals were to install the most effective VG

Rene, If you can call me @ 510-505-7800 I will hook you up with Mark Summers. Jim P. wrote: new VG layout with the group. I for one am very interested in finding out his new layout of minimum VG's tha

Michel, Mark did report a drop in stall speed from 67 to 64 MPH in clean air. James Postma's decrease in stall speed was more significant though. I believe he installed VG's on both the main wing and

Kevin, Congratulations you're still alive to tell the story. Some have not been so lucky. Do you have a gascolator? Do you have fuel lines running between the carb and oil tank? Do you have heat sleev

Kevin, Thanks for the input. It will help solve your problem. Some answers to Jim's questions: Gascolator: NO ******** Good Heat sleeve: YES ******* Good. Fuel line between carb and oil tank: NO******

Kevin, Phil makes a good point. Do you have a newly rebuilt engine? Brad's 0200 (Tom Moores airplane) has three or four hundered hours on it and when Brad shuts down, his prop is hard to turn until it

Thanks Mike, Kevin, I knew someone had the fuel flow info and Mike Dwyer is right about checking the fuel system for leaks. A blown up baloon on the vent tube works well to detect leaks. Jim P greater

Kevin, After thinking about it, I mis-stated what happened when my vent line was full of fuel, loosing ram pressure and using the carb heat. When I had the problem with the fuel vent line full of gas

Laughlin Update, Well it looks like Jennifer and I may be the only Q comming from the Bay Area next week! Unbeleivable with all these Q's at Livermore and that we can't muster up anything better. Mark

You be reeeeaal funny Langford! Looking forward to seeing you and yours next week. Are you gonna rent a car? Jim P. out!.

Kevin, It appears you somehow lost pressure on the header to carburator or something prevented fuel flow or created fuel starvation to the engine during climb out. How that happened is still a mystery

Kevin, My experience is when you install high compression pistons you will need an oil cooler because of the added heat. Jim Patillo Q200 N46JP 3. I knew Charlie was anticipating putting an oil cooler

Sam, Hope your mom and dad are getting better! I really do know what you're going through. Once again, I should have better qualified what I said. "There is an exception to everything", and I'm sure t

Mike, We should be arriving KIFP around 1PM Friday weather permitting. We're going to stop in Apple Valley for lunch around 11:00AM. Anyone near there is invited to stop by and we can fly in together

This is indeed good news and what we need for Laughlin! I was gettin' kinda worried I was going to be the only one from LVK. Bob, Alan and Geoff welcome aboard! We'll be ready for a push back at 8:30A

Peter lets be clear about what I said about my engine quiting. Both instances happened very early on when I was first learning to fly my Q which is why I advocate a boost pump properly installed for a

Ron, There's a place in Redwood City that ceramic coats exhaust pipes with a process called Jet Hot. They wire clean the inside and outside and coat both sides. They mainly do racing headers but will

As I recall the white coating is 1300 degrees and the black andaluminum is 2400 degrees. Jim P the when I I was for Behalf Of Behalf Of Behalf Of Behalf Of help and ... pipe place the heat waste of of