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1. 02:54 PM - Where was your M14 made? (N395V)
2. 03:07 PM - Re: How High Have You Flown Your M-14? (N395V)
3. 08:33 PM - Re: Where was your M14 made? (Darin Bishop)
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| Subject: | Where was your M14 made? |
Due to circumstances beyond my control I cannot work on my plane today so I started
cruising the internet looking for useful info.
One of the most frequent and frustating comments I get from people when discussing
my radial rocket "Oh you have a RED engine not a green one? Bet you got it
from that guy in Vermont. Didn't you know the red engines are all Romanian Helicopter
engines and pieces of crap?"
Now I am on my 2nd George Coy red engine. Neither is a piece of crap and neither
appeared to be a bondoed up run out chopper engine. In addition when I queried
these M14 experts they all to turn out to never have owned or flown an M14
but heard "somwhere the garbage that they had just repeated.
While researching today I found a website hosted by Darin Bishop, a Pitts 12 enthusiast"
who has about 4 posts on these forums.
The following is listed from his website which has a great wealth of other info.
Here's how to tell if you have a Russian, Romanian or helicopter engine:
K(YA): Russian (YA is actually a backwards "R")
RA: Romanian
KE: Helicopter
Serial Number meaning for the Russian engine, example KYA132026:
1st digit: Year example: 2001, 1991, 1981
2nd digit: Quarter of the year
3rd digit: Series of the engine
Last 3 digits: Ordinal, number off the production line
I indeed recieved 2 Russian engines that were not helicopter engines one of which
was assembled in 2006 just prior to my purchase. I have been very happy with
my GEOSOCO engines and their service.
Darins website is http://www.2wings.com/
Lots of interesting reading there.
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Milt
2003 F1 Rocket
2006 Radial Rocket
Read this topic online here:
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=192516#192516
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| Subject: | Re: How High Have You Flown Your M-14? |
Some overdue follow up.
I have always heard that your engine talks to you when it is having a problem and
you should heed its warnings. My altitude problem was clearly talking to me
and instead of listening made an assumption and headed for disaster.
3 months after my 1st post in this thread I sufferd vapor lock, engine failure
at low altitude, and a forced landing, a narrative of which can be read here...
http://www.vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=23422&highlight=aftermath+accident
Early on in the building process George Coy strongly recommended a fuel return
line, advice I unwisely ignored. George was right it probably would have prevented
the accident.
Hopefully I will soon be back in the air without a 13,000 foot ceiling.
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Milt
2003 F1 Rocket
2006 Radial Rocket
Read this topic online here:
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=192519#192519
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| Subject: | Re: Where was your M14 made? |
Milt,
Glad to see you found my site useful. I can't remember my source for the
engine decoding, it was awhile ago.
Please keep us posted here as your investigation / rebuild continues. While
working on my fuselage I added a mount for mixture control in case the
future includes a switch to fuel injection, so I am interested in learning
from you.
Glad your deadstick came out better than British Airways at LHR did! Your
airplane will fly again.
Darin
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