grayforge
Well Known Member
I'm setting up an ECI engine with their forward cold air sump (angled up 7 degrees), Precision Silverhawk FI and a B&C starter...
My initial attempt at getting the mixture lever set up failed with the mixture arm (offset version) hitting the back of the starter.
For the 2nd try, I cut the end the arm off and re-drilled further in along the arm. Again, no joy. The bolt head hit the starter.
Some options:
Anyone solve this combo?
Thanks!
Russ
Shortened mixture arm still hitting starter:
My initial attempt at getting the mixture lever set up failed with the mixture arm (offset version) hitting the back of the starter.
For the 2nd try, I cut the end the arm off and re-drilled further in along the arm. Again, no joy. The bolt head hit the starter.
Some options:
- File a relief notch in the corner of the alternator where the bolt head touches. The interference is only 1/16 or so.
- Swap on an arm with a 1 1/4" offset, but that's a long ways out, plus, the rod end bearing would need to be on the outside, making for quite an odd angle between bellcrank and mixture arm.
- Replace the B&C starter with an inline Plane Power one. But I like the well known reliability of the B&C and have seen specs showing the inline NL starter has a lower RPM than the standard configurations.
- Rotate the mixture arm to the lower position, ditch the bellcrank and route the mixture cable below the sump. The question here is: what sort of bracket to use to hold the cable? Maybe something attached with the bolts holding the intake manifold to the sump? Adel clamps on the intake tubes? Custom cable length?
Anyone solve this combo?
Thanks!
Russ
Shortened mixture arm still hitting starter: