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Old 01-08-2011, 07:44 PM
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Big thanks and props need go out to Mike for taking me up to Sedona AZ today.

I had a blast going up with him while witnessing real performance on his turbo O-360.

All I can say is that his bird climbed like a homesick angel. Speeds were awesome and after meeting up with Mike, I'm now convinced that I need to get turbo added onto my IO-360.

I will try to post some video of the flight within the next day but here is a screen shot for a little proof.

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Old 02-04-2011, 06:18 PM
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Default heres the results of testing

After flying for some time and getting around. I made some changes to the setup.
The motiv was to get 180 ktas at under 10 ghp and it was posible the savings where 1.4 gph.

have a couple of things to try still

if you are ready for turbo charging your rv I have a kit just let me know





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Old 02-07-2011, 07:34 PM
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Default more low level testing

And today it was nice and warm in Phoenix and i just had to test oil temps at low alt
low level flight max 3600 feet min 2500 feet







and short video of flight at 11500

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Old 02-12-2011, 02:54 PM
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Here is some footage from a flight with Mike in his Turbo RV6 shot in Northern Arizona.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VunNTjOhnEw
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Old 02-18-2011, 08:23 PM
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Default trip to truckee/tahoe from Phoenix

Ok so it was time for a long x country to se what was up with this turbo system. If it was going to be just as i planed.
did some minor tweeks before leaving and it seamed like it worked.
We left kdvt sunday morning heading to truckee /tahoe.
after getting to altitude and leaning for best temp and economy heres what i ended up getting



The trip ended taking 3 hours and 20 min crabbing 25-35 degrees up and 15-20.
On the way home it ended up at 3 hours and 10 min.
Not bad for kdvt- ktrk.
1065 nm in 6 1/2 hours with that kind of wind still about 163.8 kts average with climb and all





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Old 02-19-2011, 01:44 PM
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Default speed question ?

Some people say well mine does that kind of speed allready. Just remember this rv is un painted, antennas sticking out top and buttom. Heavy because off inverted oil system, speedbrakes, two peoble and full of fuel.
Emty weight before turbo was 1275 lbs. After is 1311 and that was incl. maps, headsets,and other stuff i keep in there for x country.
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Old 03-13-2011, 08:01 PM
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Default trip to vegas

Today it was time for a trip to vegas landing at klas.
on the trip up i had to wait and circle outside class b and then land 19R but 1hour 32 min was still good
on the way home the trip was 235 nmiles and 1hour 22 min not bad from wheels up to wheels down at kdvt



yes oil temp is up but i have a new sensor on order the center is lose so its not accurate showing high

turbo kits are available : oilsump, intake, exaust, scavenge pump, upperdeck presure injectors, intercooler, hoses, clamps, 2 oilcoolers and turbo
it will fit 320 360 375 390 in rv 6 7 8 9 10 and others
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Old 04-03-2011, 05:37 PM
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Default now for drag reduction

ok the power is there but my plane was born with a lot of drag in the cowl setup i have got a hold of a stock cowl and im in the process of cut and paste to imitate dan and the shrinking exit nice work dan i just dont think
that i have dan's workmanship when it comes to fiberglas but a grinder and some microbubles and i will have cut my exit area down by 2/3 cant wait to do some test flying
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Old 04-24-2011, 11:05 PM
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Default testing

well after a lot of sanding fiberglas and different test fligths i seem to have gained about 8-10 knots on my mod and of course it does not come for free heat is the cost but its under control plus temps have gone up here in phoenix but testing different tings to deal with heat in climb and cruse is going really good i im very happy with the results so far
this weekend was a nice trip to vegas again
these are snapshots after the climb just before things started to cool down one going north west and one going south east
and it was 75 min friday from dvt to henderson and today it was 72 min to dvt from henderson fuel burn was 14.4 up and 13.2 home.
at the moment im trying a lot of power settings just to se how it runs







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Old 04-25-2011, 04:09 AM
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Nice speed increase Mike. How about some pictures so we can see what the cowling looks like now? Especially the exit from the intercooler. I'm convinced that was a big source of drag.
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