My -10 seems to have developed a problem with its Performance Engineering FI

[pierre smith]

If any of you guys are running a PE fuel injection system, kindly help me out.

Last Friday morning it was around 72 degrees, I started cold and taxied about 200 yards to the gas pumps and filled up. I must've tried seven times to get her to start. I tried about a 3 second prime because it was maybe 'warm' from the taxi...no dice...primed a little longer...no dice...a short start and then it quit. This happened a half dozen times and I don't really know if the last attempt at flooding it was what started it but it did the same thing the next day at home after taxiing for about 3 minutes to our gas pumps.

I spoke with Al in Oregon yesterday and he suggested that it may be pilot error on my part, since it runs fine at all altitudes and nothing appears to have changed. Hot starts are way easier than a start after 2-3 minutes of taxiing.

Questions: How do you guys do a start like this?

Secondly, what could possibly be wrong with the system?

I'm baffled because Al says the system appears to be fine with only 275 total hours. and I don't have a purge valve.

Thanks,

[aerhed]

On a quickie like that I've had some luck doing a key shutoff & don't even touch your go knobs. Leave em' right like they were when you rolled into the pit and just hit the key to start, no boost. Try it, whaddya got to lose?

[nucleus]

Three minute run then stop I go with full hot start procedure, full throttle, no fuel, feed in the fuel while cranking.

Hans

[rvmills]

Pierre,

I've tried a normal start after a short taxi to the pumps, but it doesn't seem to work for me. So...Hans' method has been working for me as well. I was taught to "prime" (flood) it first (throttle full, mixture rich, boost pump on 3-5 seconds), then pull the mixture and start with throttle in and mixture out. When it catches, do the quick shuffle of mixture in and throttle to idle.

Sounds like that's what you're doing though, so I'm scratchin' my haid.

Good luck! Interested in what you find out!

Cheers,
Bob

[pierre smith]

...and also the PM's. This is my first Spring owning the airplane and I may have to adjust my learning curve with the increasing OAT's,

Best,