fstringham7a
Well Known Member
Re:Work and Play
Today was one of those work and play days.......Rocket and RV7A in a flight of two to Mesquite NV from Hurricane Utah to check out a just finished RV8.
I flew back seat in the Rocket and got a picture of the RV7A.........Flew right seat back to 1L8.....acro was just great..................
The picture just doesn't do justice to how beautiful the paint job/scheme of this plane.
Now to the work. Since the purchase of the RV7A (50 plus hours on a reman Lyco IO360 FI engine) the egt are running at or just below 1400. The CHT's were running above 400 especially the #3 was at or above 420. The oil temp was running near 230 plus. The engine was retimed which lowered the CHT's temps. #3 still runs close to 395.........where the others are a round 360. We sealed the baffles/made a scope to get more air to the oil cooler (right inlet deck to the engine has a 3 inch hole/3 inch scat tube to get air to the oil cooler which hangs on the engine mount near the lower fire wall). The previous owner put louvers on the lower cowl we think to help in these problems. Next idea is to change out the oil lines that appear to be undersized.
At 7500 ft / 2400 squared (approximate as I remember), OAT about 69 degrees the oil temp was still 210.
Is this just a hot blood aircraft or ........Any ideas on what next to get the oil temp below 200 in climb and cruise!!!!
Frank @ 1L8 .....RV7A....last 997 details
Today was one of those work and play days.......Rocket and RV7A in a flight of two to Mesquite NV from Hurricane Utah to check out a just finished RV8.
I flew back seat in the Rocket and got a picture of the RV7A.........Flew right seat back to 1L8.....acro was just great..................
The picture just doesn't do justice to how beautiful the paint job/scheme of this plane.
Now to the work. Since the purchase of the RV7A (50 plus hours on a reman Lyco IO360 FI engine) the egt are running at or just below 1400. The CHT's were running above 400 especially the #3 was at or above 420. The oil temp was running near 230 plus. The engine was retimed which lowered the CHT's temps. #3 still runs close to 395.........where the others are a round 360. We sealed the baffles/made a scope to get more air to the oil cooler (right inlet deck to the engine has a 3 inch hole/3 inch scat tube to get air to the oil cooler which hangs on the engine mount near the lower fire wall). The previous owner put louvers on the lower cowl we think to help in these problems. Next idea is to change out the oil lines that appear to be undersized.
At 7500 ft / 2400 squared (approximate as I remember), OAT about 69 degrees the oil temp was still 210.
Is this just a hot blood aircraft or ........Any ideas on what next to get the oil temp below 200 in climb and cruise!!!!
Frank @ 1L8 .....RV7A....last 997 details