MichaelFarley56 wrote:Hey, congrats on the first start! That looks great! Looks a little cold there too... :lol:
Question for you...I noticed you have a crush plate on the front of your prop...do you have some kind of spinner planned? Are you going to use the stock Sonex part?
You guys don't miss anything!
The crush plate came with the engine and prop. I do have a Sonex hub I will use. The prop is from a Zenith 601 and isn't pitched right for the speedie Sonex. I've ordered a Prince and will sell the other prop when I get it.
The weather was a bit cool, but nice for Colorado in the winter, 42F. I used a space heater in the garage to get the engine up to 65F before I fired it off.
You'll notice once I switched on the mags, it fired right off. That was from the fuel I had in the carb while testing for leaks. I forgot I had shut off the fuel valve so it starved immediately. You can almost see my thought process, Hmmmm, what is it? Oh yeah, idiot, fuel valve.
After the video we got it to idle real smooth at about 6oo RPM for several minutes. Oil temp never came up, so that I will have to trouble shoot.