---------------------------------------------------------- Kolb-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Thu 06/18/09: 23 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 12:19 AM - Re: Re: sweltering summer (Tony Oldman) 2. 02:14 AM - Re: Re: Thank you (pj.ladd) 3. 02:22 AM - Re: Re: ASI (pj.ladd) 4. 03:46 AM - Re: Rotax 503 running problem (lucien) 5. 04:14 AM - Re: Re: Thank you (Dana Hague) 6. 04:14 AM - Re: Re: Thank you (Dana Hague) 7. 08:26 AM - Re: Thank you (dalewhelan) 8. 09:46 AM - Re: Rotax 503 running problem (dalewhelan) 9. 09:57 AM - Re: Rotax 503 running problem (lucien) 10. 10:20 AM - Re: A new Slant on living with your Rotax... (Blumax008@AOL.COM) 11. 10:41 AM - Re: Rotax 503 running problem (dalewhelan) 12. 11:13 AM - Re: Re: Thank you (pj.ladd) 13. 11:24 AM - Re: Re: Rotax 503 running problem (pj.ladd) 14. 11:54 AM - Re: A new Slant on living with your Rotax... (Richard Girard) 15. 11:59 AM - Re: Re: Thank you (pj.ladd) 16. 12:14 PM - Re: Re: ASI (pj.ladd) 17. 12:27 PM - Re: sweltering summer (lucien) 18. 01:46 PM - Re: Rotax 503 running problem (lucien) 19. 02:34 PM - Re: Re: Rotax Operating Parameters (Jack B. Hart) 20. 07:08 PM - Re: Rotax 503 running problem (dalewhelan) 21. 07:43 PM - Re: A new Slant on living with your Rotax... (dalewhelan) 22. 08:44 PM - Re: WRT M3X prop boom measurements. (dalewhelan) 23. 09:43 PM - Re: Re: Rotax 503 running problem (Ron @ KFHU) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 12:19:36 AM PST US From: "Tony Oldman" Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Re: sweltering summer Good here yesterday ,started at 30F and went to 44F, No wind ,no cloud, a great day to fly. Work sucks even in winter Downunder MK111c ----- Original Message ----- From: "cristalclear13" Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 1:39 AM Subject: Kolb-List: Re: sweltering summer > > > Did I hear right that some people in New York got snow yesterday? Can you > send some of that cool weather down here to South Georgia please? > > -------- > Cristal Waters > Kolb Mark II Twinstar > Rotax 503 DCSI > > > Read this topic online here: > > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=248687#248687 > > > ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 02:14:21 AM PST US From: "pj.ladd" Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Re: Thank you I pushed the nose down and aimed at the base of the fence and flared when I got there, as I cleared the fence I pushed forward, the plane nose over but was done flying, I got the nose back up but it hit hard, no damage.>> Hi Dale, I once saw that done and like you, the pilot got away with it. Thinking about it afterwards I came to the conclusion that continuing the glide, and not diving was the better answer. At least in theory you cannot get higher than you were by diving and pulling up. Where would the extra energy come from? When you dive you exchange some of the potential energy stored in the glider in the form of height for speed, and when you pull up you change it back again from speed into height. Unfortunately there are losses involved. Otherwise you would have invented a perpetual motion machine. In any case the theoretical best you can do, disregarding any losses for the sake of argument, is to get back to the height you were before, so you have gained nothing. Of course you might expend all your energy getting back all the height available and then the plane quits flying at that point and you just fall over the fence, which is just about what happened to you. Takes nerve to put the theory into practice and just sit there watching the fence get higher. I think I might try to dive anyway. I really should approach my flying in the same manner that you do. I am afraid that I tend to think that whatever I have been doing up to now has kept me alive so thats enough. I know that its not but I am too old to change my habits now. Cheers Pat ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 02:22:33 AM PST US From: "pj.ladd" Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Re: ASI Hi Dana, very neat job. I envy you your ability to work in metal. I grew up in a timber yard and can make a reasonable joint in wood but never had any metalwork training. Welding and stuff is a mystery to me. I might just about make a soldered joint if pushed but thats it. Nevertheless I know a man who can do some stuff in metal and I might try that if the other simpler suggestions for a mod to my piot don`t work. Grotty weather day today. Just off to repair the wooden floor to my hangar Thanks Pat ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 03:46:58 AM PST US Subject: Kolb-List: Re: Rotax 503 running problem From: "lucien" dalewhelan wrote: > > With 90 hours on the plugs and a combustion chamber that is clean, my motor disagrees with you, as do I. Well, as you said you do have a lot to learn - I hope you learn it without having to put down in a field when the fan stops turning. I'll have one more go here and hope it takes. After that, it's your motor and your plane. If you really have the mechanical experience you say you do, you know the value of field experience with an engine - with the 503 we got lots of it, decades in fact, and it all points to _50:1 only_, no other ratio when running premix. More oil, especially at the level of 32:1, is taking your chances, much like the suggestion of running 6500 rpm all the time. But as I said, it's your plane and motor. Good luck, LS -------- LS Titan II SS Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=248872#248872 ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 04:14:39 AM PST US From: Dana Hague Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Re: Thank you At 05:13 AM 6/18/2009, pj.ladd wrote: >At least in theory you cannot get higher than you were by diving and >pulling up. Where would the extra energy come from? When you dive you >exchange some of the potential energy stored in the glider in the form of >height for speed, and when you pull up you change it back again from >speed into height. Unfortunately there are losses involved. Otherwise you >would have invented a perpetual motion machine. In any case the >theoretical best you can do, disregarding any losses for the sake of >argument, is to get back to the height you were before... Well, yes and no. You have some kinetic energy at first as well, so you may be able to end up higher, but at a lower airspeed than when you started. -Dana -- Help, I've fallen up and I can't get down ________________________________ Message 6 _____________________________________ Time: 04:14:39 AM PST US From: Dana Hague Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Re: Thank you At 12:02 AM 6/18/2009, dalewhelan wrote: > >It may sound funny but when I am short my first thought is to gain speed, >I am not one to try to extend a glide. Well, sure. The speed for best glide _angle_ is faster than the speed for minimum _sink_. Also the speed for best glide angle over the ground if you're flying into the wind is faster than if you're flying downwind. This is especially true in slow aircraft like ours, where the wind speed may be a significant fraction of our airsped. -Dana -- Help, I've fallen up and I can't get down ________________________________ Message 7 _____________________________________ Time: 08:26:24 AM PST US Subject: Kolb-List: Re: Thank you From: "dalewhelan" Most of the time I land into the wind. If I lower the nose I progress further over the ground. The example I was given many years ago was was something like this. If you stall at 30 and have a 30 MPH headwind you will never make the field flying at 30. If you fly 45 into a 30 MPH headwind your chances are better. -------- Dale Whelan 503 powered Firestar II Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=248909#248909 ________________________________ Message 8 _____________________________________ Time: 09:46:00 AM PST US Subject: Kolb-List: Re: Rotax 503 running problem From: "dalewhelan" [quote="lucien"] dalewhelan wrote: > > With 90 hours on the plugs and a combustion chamber that is clean, my motor disagrees with you, as do I. You do know the 503 is a Dykes ring design right? Of course I do And that its primary use is on _airplanes_ not bikes? Actually the primary use is low RPM boat motors and some motorcycles. Specifically used because of the better sealing at low RPM because of the higher cylinder contact surface area. While they have Less tendency to flutter at high RPM than a conventional or Keystone ring They are not generally used in High RPM motors due to the increased friction their surface area provides against the cylinder. How many 503's have you run to TBO at 32:1? None yet I got mine at TBO and have flown it 100 hours. How many past TBO at 32:1? I am 100 past TBOon my first 503 How many times have you had to tune a motor and have it compared against the best tuners in America? It'd be good to review your experience on this, could be very helpful to the rest of us who've been hanging underneath this motor for years and years and been doing it wrong all this time. Sarcasm, something I have been told I am very good at, I have trouble not using it myself. My grandma used to cut the ends off the roast before she cooked it, so did my mom, mom did it because her mom did. Grandma did it to make it fit in the pan. Not saying you are stupid or wrong, just saying there may be something you do not know about. You said you have a lot to learn Thinking you know it all means the end of progress and to me the opportunity to get taught the hard way that you don't know it all. - well, yeah, I'd say that you do. And I hope you learn it without having to put down in a field when the fan stops turning, Funny, it seems that my background may be discomforting to you, The advice I get is don't touch it you'll break it. Don't lean it you'll die. These same people land and there plane won't restart hot using and electric starter. Mine starts with one tug of the recoil started. In the morning I pull it 3 times and watch them try to light off before the battery dies. They too have been hanging under a 503 for many years. I found my flight instructors plane to be opening the throttle only part way from the front, and I told him how to fix his charging system. or advise someone else into doing the same. I'll have one more go here and hope it takes. After that, it's your motor and your plane. If you really have the mechanical experience you say you do, That statement sounds like you are calling me a liar, hope you did not mean it that way. you know the value of field experience with an engine There is much truth to what you say sadly I have seen many Harley mechanics that think this way, my motor is so much different than any other motor that operates on the suck squeeze bang blow method No one else but me can make the thing run at all, ever notice how bad some of those sound? The fact is many people working on motors are not mechanics and all they can really do is try to copy what they think a mechanic does. - with the 503 we got lots of it, decades in fact, and it all points to _50:1 only_, no other ratio when running premix. What ratios have you tried and what were your results? How did it do at 40:1 and what specific problems did you have? What were the specific result of 60:1 More oil, especially at the level of 32:1, is taking chances you don't need to take, How so, what chances am I taking? The oil coking you mentioned in an earlier post does not make sense to me, I have been told( By a technical service manager at American Suzuki and a former Spectro employee) that oil coking was a result of high oil temps, they had a problem with it when people left air cooled ATVs idling for long period of time. The temperature the hit were nowhere close to what a 503 sees. much like the suggestion of running 6500 rpm all the time. I read that post and you may have been in a hurry when you quoted it, you left out how long he said to run it for, the time was 5 minutes, not all the time. When you asked how long he had at 6,500 I thought about my limited time flying and how I would answer that. My answer is about 300 takeoffs X 1 minute and maybe about 100 of those at X about 4 minutes so about 700 minutes. I also thought who would log max power time? But it's your plane and motor. This sounds like racing to me, I pay for all the choices I make no matter whose advice I take, that is exactly why I experiment and test and learn and practice. Let's all be careful out there including where we get our advice. Many people think racer have a death wish, news flash many racers think that of pilots. Both disciplines are very safety conscious, those who are not die, some of those who are die too. Believe it or not I am safety conscious. While a friend of mine calls me Mr Safety I am always trying to improve my safety. even though my ballast does not like it, I always fly solo after working on my plane, 2 reasons, one is an FAR, the other is experience. When we were in Monument Valley my ballast wanted a ride, the density altitude was higher than I had taken off with her before so I had to evaluate the planes performance first. I lean my motor out and people accuse me of trying to go faster (because of my racing background I guess?), the reality is I don't want to run out of gas on a cross country, lower fuel burn gives me a little insurance, too rich fouls plugs, and I want to climb even if I am in sink. As a side note, when I said I was going to Missouri to get my plane in July and fly it back people told me it was a bad idea, nobody told me why. I now know why. Another pilot/instructor/FBO voiced concerns until he talked and flew with me. He still had concerns but was more comfortable. Good luck, Thanks for the reply and I hope I am not boring, or offending anyone. -------- Dale Whelan 503 powered Firestar II Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=248923#248923 ________________________________ Message 9 _____________________________________ Time: 09:57:27 AM PST US Subject: Kolb-List: Re: Rotax 503 running problem From: "lucien" [quote="dalewhelan"] lucien wrote: > > > How many 503's have you run to TBO at 32:1? > None yet I got mine at TBO and have flown it 100 hours. > That's what I figured. Let us know what your results are when you _do_ get a little more experience with this motor. Till then, folks, Caveat Emptor. LS -------- LS Titan II SS Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=248931#248931 ________________________________ Message 10 ____________________________________ Time: 10:20:19 AM PST US From: Blumax008@AOL.COM Subject: Re: Kolb-List: A new Slant on living with your Rotax... Just read the post / battle between Dale & whomever he's battling with. I can't believe all this. I started flying ultralight aircraft in the summer of '78 with a Terror-Dactyl (no canard) with a 22hp Sachs single banger. Good motor. Somehow I've gotten along & stayed alive all that time without BRSs too. 31 years & not a single expensive BRS purchase or expensive repack. Fast forward to 2009. I own a Trike for towing hang gliders with a 503, a half partnership in a Phantom with a 503, a Kolb with a 503 & a SeaWing Trike with a 582...only because it came with one. What I'm getting at is that I can't believe all this incredibly complicated technical talk you guys are doing. I fly the pee-living crap out of all my motors & rarely do anything to them except change the plugs. And what the hell is a TBO? Who put that imaginary time limit on it? Rotax wants you to do it so you'll buy more parts that you "think" you need. Do me a favor...before you go flying next time, stand close to your motor and ask it this question..."How many hours do you have on you?" You probably won't get an answer. The reason is that it doesn't know & can't speak English. It has no idea. My Trike, while towing hang gliders, flies WIDE-ASS OPEN at 6500rpm for the entire flight up to (usually) 2,500 feet & has been wide open up to 5,500 feet. My motor has over 1,600 hours on it & is still going strong with a solid crank. I've replaced both pistons & rings once & decarboned it 4 times. That's it & that's the truth. It'll be 12 years old come September. My only 582 was on my Full Lotus equipped Maxair & it went 1,000 hours (running at 6,000rpm+ most of that time) before I sold it to a guy in California who wrecked it in the Pacific friggin' Ocean. The 582 is a good motor too, it's just a pain in the ass to work with...anti-freeze, hoses, radiators...for what? 12 or so extra horsepower? Try working on that damn thing in the field. I really can only give you younger guys my years of experience & this simple sentence of advice...Fly the damn things & forget all the bullshit you read on the internet. **************Dell Days of Deals! June 15-24 - A New Deal Everyday! ad.doubleclick.net%2Fclk%3B215692163%3B38015526%3Be) ________________________________ Message 11 ____________________________________ Time: 10:41:21 AM PST US Subject: Kolb-List: Re: Rotax 503 running problem From: "dalewhelan" I have read many posts, many helpful. It is sad to think that some one with your experience and background habitually expresses himself in a critical, dismissive, and belittling manner. When you do this fewer people want to hear from you. I have noticed a couple of people on this site. John is one, I even met him briefly at Monument Valley this year. He came over and said hi, he talked with Greg about his nose gear Firestar, He took local kids for rides, he tries to help us newbies on this forum. He seems like a kind and respectable man. I read posts where it looked like you twisted what he said and ridiculed him. I expected you to do the same with me and you seem to have fulfilled that promise. I like it when people try to help others, I am disappointed when I see criticism offered when help is asked for. It is a shame that with your greater life experience and greater flying experience that I longer wish to hear what you have to say. You probably have a lot to offer and could be a great mentor, I think you prefer not to do that. Please don't offer me your type of help any longer. -------- Dale Whelan 503 powered Firestar II Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=248941#248941 ________________________________ Message 12 ____________________________________ Time: 11:13:42 AM PST US From: "pj.ladd" Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Re: Thank you so you may be able to end up higher, but at a lower airspeed than when you started.>> Hi Dana, thats why I said "disregarding other losses" or words to that effect. Cheers Pat ________________________________ Message 13 ____________________________________ Time: 11:24:23 AM PST US From: "pj.ladd" Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Re: Rotax 503 running problem 503 we got lots of it, decades in fact, and it all points to _50:1 only_, no other ratio when running premix. >> Why do some pilots always disagree with the manufacturer? You would have though that it was a safe assumption that the makers have data at their fingertips which is not generally available to the average pilot. They have the correlated results of every engine they have ever made. Even the most enthusiastic pilot has only his own experience or maybe `say so` gleaned from a local `expert`. >From some of the posts it seems that there are pilots constantly changing jets, renewing carb. needles, leaning the settings etc. Why not just leave well alone. Running an engine with lower oil in the mix strikes me as being foolish. What is the object? Saving money? Some people are just of a nature that they love pulling engines apart and experimenting. Fair enough, its a lot of fun if you are that way inclined but I don`t think that individual experience outweighs the accumulated info. which a manufacturer has. Cheers Pat ________________________________ Message 14 ____________________________________ Time: 11:54:27 AM PST US Subject: Re: Kolb-List: A new Slant on living with your Rotax... From: Richard Girard Bravo! Rick *Never forget 2/3 of BRS is BS* do not archive On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:13 PM, wrote: > Just read the post / battle between Dale & whomever he's battling with. > > I can't believe all this. I started flying ultralight aircraft in the > summer of '78 with a Terror-Dactyl (no canard) with a 22hp Sachs single > banger. Good motor. Somehow I've gotten along & stayed alive all that > time without BRSs too. 31 years & not a single expensive BRS purchase or > expensive repack. > > Fast forward to 2009. I own a Trike for towing hang gliders with a 503, a > half partnership in a Phantom with a 503, a Kolb with a 503 & a SeaWing > Trike with a 582...only because it came with one. > > What I'm getting at is that I can't believe all this incredibly complicated > technical talk you guys are doing. I fly the pee-living crap out of all my > motors & rarely do anything to them except change the plugs. And what the > hell is a TBO? Who put that imaginary time limit on it? Rotax wants you to > do it so you'll buy more parts that you "think" you need. > > Do me a favor...before you go flying next time, stand close to your motor > and ask it this question..."How many hours do you have on you?" You probably > won't get an answer. The reason is that it doesn't know & can't speak > English. It has no idea. > > My Trike, while towing hang gliders, flies WIDE-ASS OPEN at 6500rpm for the > entire flight up to (usually) 2,500 feet & has been wide open up to 5,500 > feet. My motor has over 1,600 hours on it & is still going strong with a > solid crank. I've replaced both pistons & rings once & decarboned it 4 > times. That's it & that's the truth. It'll be 12 years old come September. > > My only 582 was on my Full Lotus equipped Maxair & it went 1,000 hours > (running at 6,000rpm+ most of that time) before I sold it to a guy in > California who wrecked it in the Pacific friggin' Ocean. The 582 is a good > motor too, it's just a pain in the ass to work with...anti-freeze, hoses, > radiators...for what? 12 or so extra horsepower? Try working on that damn > thing in the field. > > I really can only give you younger guys my years of experience & this > simple sentence of advice...Fly the damn things & forget all the bullshit > you read on the internet. > > ------------------------------ > Dell Days of Deals! June 15-24 - A New Deal Everyday! > > * > > * > > ________________________________ Message 15 ____________________________________ Time: 11:59:11 AM PST US From: "pj.ladd" Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Re: Thank you If you stall at 30 and have a 30 MPH headwind you will never make the field flying at 30. >> Don`t understand. What has stalling to do with it? Cheers Pat ________________________________ Message 16 ____________________________________ Time: 12:14:24 PM PST US From: "pj.ladd" Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Re: ASI Aircraft Spruce lists a couple of the single tube designs,>> Thanks Bill. Pat ________________________________ Message 17 ____________________________________ Time: 12:27:45 PM PST US Subject: Kolb-List: Re: sweltering summer From: "lucien" aoldman(at)xtra.co.nz wrote: > Good here yesterday ,started at 30F and went to 44F, No wind ,no cloud, a > great day to fly. Work sucks even in winter > > Downunder > MK111c > --- The monsoon season is almost upon us here. Even with that and the stronger winds and convective activity, I don't miss that heat down on the gulf coast where I lived the last 30 years. Only other bummer is the density altitude. Back when I had my FSII, my max climb rate was only about 400fpm in 10F temperatures. On a summer morning or evening, 300 was about all I could do. That was with the 503 3.47:1 C box cranking that big ol warp drive taper tip too...... LS -------- LS Titan II SS Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=248973#248973 ________________________________ Message 18 ____________________________________ Time: 01:46:35 PM PST US Subject: Kolb-List: Re: Rotax 503 running problem From: "lucien" pj.ladd(at)btinternet.com wrote: > > well alone. > Running an engine with lower oil in the mix strikes me as being foolish. > What is the object? Saving money? > > Some people are just of a nature that they love pulling engines apart and > experimenting. Fair enough, its a lot of fun if you are that way inclined > but I don`t think that individual experience outweighs the accumulated info. > which a manufacturer has. > > Cheers > > Pat It's worth noting that the 50:1 requirement is originally Rotax's requirement and it still is. There are some mistakes here and there in the 2-stroke manuals (such as the infamous max CHT limit) but the rest is reliable for sure, including the premix oil ratio. I like to let the other guys do the experimenting as I generally can't afford the mishaps, dealing with FSDO and FAA, etc., that come from going it on your own and ignoring correct advice. So I just tow the line on what we know to be the most reliable running configuration, rpms, installation, etc. and fly instead.... LS -------- LS Titan II SS Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=249004#249004 ________________________________ Message 19 ____________________________________ Time: 02:34:29 PM PST US From: "Jack B. Hart" Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Re: Rotax Operating Parameters At 02:31 PM 6/17/09 -0700, you wrote: >I am interested in Kolbs that are 103 compliant. I was totally impressed with a Firefly I saw at Brians Ranch fly-in. Just looking at pictures the Ultrastar caught my eye. I want something to learn on and not die too soon. > GeoB, You may want to check out: http://www.jackbhart.com/firefly/fireflylegal.html It is a page describing the design parameters that determine if an aircraft can be flown as an ultralight vehicle. There are two bits of info that are difficult to dismiss and they are empty weight and fuel tank volume. If you can meet these two requirements and you can calculate enough drag and low enough wing loading, the air craft is declared an ultralight, no matter how fast it will fly or at what speed it will stall. If the UltraStar can meet the empty weight limit, surely it has more drag that a FireFly. For your interest, I invite you to look at: http://www.jackbhart.com/firefly/firefly.html and: http://www.jackbhart.com/firefly/fireflyindex.html Jack B. Hart FF004 Winchester, IN ________________________________ Message 20 ____________________________________ Time: 07:08:46 PM PST US Subject: Kolb-List: Re: Rotax 503 running problem From: "dalewhelan" Not that this was the intent of this thread but, Is there anyone on this board other than myself that has tried running more than the recommended amount of oil and willing to share with me what they found. Just for fun, even though I have no inclination to do so, is there anyone on this board that has run less oil than 50:1, ( I once saw a company claim you could run their oil at 150:1) If so would you share your results with me? -------- Dale Whelan 503 powered Firestar II Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=249046#249046 ________________________________ Message 21 ____________________________________ Time: 07:43:30 PM PST US Subject: Kolb-List: Re: A new Slant on living with your Rotax... From: "dalewhelan" Sorry if I wasted your time, I just have a love for making motors work. I can drop it or start a new thread called big egos, childish behavior if you like. -------- Dale Whelan 503 powered Firestar II Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=249049#249049 ________________________________ Message 22 ____________________________________ Time: 08:44:34 PM PST US Subject: Kolb-List: Re: WRT M3X prop boom measurements. From: "dalewhelan" After reading all the posts I really don't know anything about props. I think the next prop I buy will be another 2 blade ground adjustable IVO. It is just so easy to adjust. I have a Firestar II with a 503 DCDI -------- Dale Whelan 503 powered Firestar II Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=249057#249057 ________________________________ Message 23 ____________________________________ Time: 09:43:41 PM PST US From: "Ron @ KFHU" Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Re: Rotax 503 running problem To oil ratio I think giving it a bit more oil will improve its reliability. There is of course a point where the oil is detrimental. For example the octane level may (?) start dropping and rapidly ( I need more data on that though, as the oil may have somewhat of a retardant effect on burning efficiency thus preventing detonation), burning efficiency starts falling and so on. But with some experimentation I suppose I can find that point just before the decreased ratio is becoming detrimental. At 35 / 1 the Cyuna seems happy so far. I may try later to 30 to 1 and see if its good. I guess I could try 15-1 on the ground only and see what happens just for the curiosity of it, but oil is more expensive than 91 octane so I guess you can wonder if there is any point to it, to make more smoke and less power. Once you reach the point where the motor gets all the lube it needs then we ain't doing it anymore good tossing more oil into it. We just need to be careful. Ron @ KFHU ========================= ---- dalewhelan wrote: ============ Not that this was the intent of this thread but, Is there anyone on this board other than myself that has tried running more than the recommended amount of oil and willing to share with me what they found. Just for fun, even though I have no inclination to do so, is there anyone on this board that has run less oil than 50:1, ( I once saw a company claim you could run their oil at 150:1) If so would you share your results with me? -------- Dale Whelan 503 powered Firestar II Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=249046#249046 -- kugelair.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Matronics Email List Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post A New Message kolb-list@matronics.com UN/SUBSCRIBE http://www.matronics.com/subscription List FAQ http://www.matronics.com/FAQ/Kolb-List.htm Web Forum Interface To Lists http://forums.matronics.com Matronics List Wiki http://wiki.matronics.com Full Archive Search Engine http://www.matronics.com/search 7-Day List Browse http://www.matronics.com/browse/kolb-list Browse Digests http://www.matronics.com/digest/kolb-list Browse Other Lists http://www.matronics.com/browse Live Online Chat! http://www.matronics.com/chat Archive Downloading http://www.matronics.com/archives Photo Share http://www.matronics.com/photoshare Other Email Lists http://www.matronics.com/emaillists Contributions http://www.matronics.com/contribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These Email List Services are sponsored solely by Matronics and through the generous Contributions of its members.