G3i & Sun-n-Fun

[G3i Ignition]

Russ and I headed out Wednesday morning in his supercharged 7 and made it a little over 400mi S.E. of Denver due to weather. Watched the weather at the Pratt FBO and enjoyed our $300.00 hamburgers. While in Pratt Kamas, Russ and I met another RV?er that has a real clean 6, he has cleaned up a lot of the parasitic drag problems. He running @ 205 miles/hr indicated on a stock 320. Russ has his contact info. Also, I was turn onto another weather web site called HEMS Weather Information, here's the link: http://weather.aero/tools/desktopapps/hemstool. Launch the HEMS Tool software and ck it out.
G3i planned and still is going to offer a Sun-n-Fun discount, which is, 8% off the Series ?1 and Series ?2 system kits through the 15th of April 2011. Contact me for more info.

Thomas S.

[mosquito]

Originally Posted by G3i Ignition

While in Pratt Kamas, Russ and I met another RV?er that has a real clean 6, he has cleaned up a lot of the parasitic drag problems. He running @ 205 miles/hr indicated on a stock 320.

Is that even possible? Curiosity piqued...

-jon

[pierre smith]

Originally Posted by mosquito

Is that even possible? Curiosity piqued...

-jon

...our 6A did 202 MPH with a nose gear too! That figure was reached at 7500', WOT, turning near 2800 RPM on a three bladed Catto, optimized for max cruise, with our home-built 0-360 Lyc.

No external antennae but two steps which the -6 probably doesn't have.

Alan Judy in Oklahoma runs over 210 with his -6, with quite a few mods and very small cooling intakes.

Best,

[Ron Lee]

Originally Posted by G3i Ignition

Russ and I headed out Wednesday morning in his supercharged 7 and made it a little over 400mi S.E. of Denver due to weather.

I am glad you did not make it in a timely manner. That (weather issues) may have saved your aircraft along with many others.

[sailvi767]

The six I have was built carefully by Robbie Attaway for speed. I removed the small main wheels and pants and replaced them with stock since I wanted to be able to operate off grass. I still get 210-212 MPH at 75% power and 8000 feet. If I went back to the speed pants I should gain 3 to 4 more MPH.

George

[pierre smith]

...actually runs closer to 220 MPH.

Scroll down for a look at the intakes and air exits:

http://www.vansairforce.com/communit...n+judy&page=13

Best,

[mosquito]

Originally Posted by pierre smith

...our 6A did 202 MPH with a nose gear too! That figure was reached at 7500', WOT, turning near 2800 RPM on a three bladed Catto, optimized for max cruise, with our home-built 0-360 Lyc.

Originally Posted by sailvi767

The six I have was built carefully by Robbie Attaway for speed. I removed the small main wheels and pants and replaced them with stock since I wanted to be able to operate off grass. I still get 210-212 MPH at 75% power and 8000 feet. If I went back to the speed pants I should gain 3 to 4 more MPH.

Originally Posted by pierre smith

Alan Judy's airplane actually runs closer to 220 MPH.
Scroll down for a look at the intakes and air exits:
http://www.vansairforce.com/communit...n+judy&page=13

Aren't these all O-360s, though? The 205 mph figure was for a 'stock O-320'.

Sorry for causing such thread drift for G3i!

-jon

[rv7boy]

Sorry for the thread creep too, but "205 mph INDICATED" doesn't mean a thing to me if an altitude is not given. "205 indicated" at 12,500 MSL is a LOT different than "205 indicated" at 1500 MSL.

[RV7Guy]

Going to use the 3Gi system in the new 7 with Barrett IO390. A neighbor has the system in his Glasair and is very impressed with the performance.

[Fearless]

I bought one of the Series 2 system to put on my O-320. I'm not flying yet but after thinking about it for 6 months I decided to go ahead and get one for the potential improved performance. I intended to go with my mags all along and this seemed like a natural progression.