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Originally Posted by n567vb
Hi Don,
I installed my mixture cable the exact same way you did. I even have the same throttle body and my engine is the same color! :-).
Did you have any issue with the cowling and the airbox? I heard some report that just bending the bracket resulted in the airbox not aligning with the cowling, although it sounds like a spacer between the airbox and the throttle body would solve that.
Thank
Vince
RV-7
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Cool, another blue engine. I'm sure you'll find it is much more powerful than the gray lycomings. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
I have not had any issues in this area, now with ~110 hrs. IIRC, the Van's bracket is shaped assuming a reverse throw mixture control on the fuel servo. If you have that reverse throw servo you have to modify the airbox, essentially building a notch into it. If you have the servo with the forward throw mixture like mine, you *must* bend the bracket and no mods are required for the airbox. I think the forward throw mixture is the better configuration for the rv7 with vertical-io, but both work. Jamie Painter has the opposite mixture throw to mine, and both our planes are doing fine.
When you build up the airbox, the instructions take you through the process of aligning with the ram intake and the cowl sides. I more or less just followed those instructions, and it all worked out.
Good luck and post some pics of that engine!
Don