Greetings all --
I acquired a RV-7A with an experimental 180HP IO-360 with the AeroSance FADEC package installed two years ago. No issues to-date other than having to replace the backup battery (actually a $30 12V alarm battery) ...
So I'm looking for some spares. Maybe an injector and an inline filter.
I've seen the thread for installing a 5 micron Mallory 3160 fuel filter that seems to be really cheap insurance against gumming up the expensive and hard to find parts for works and plan on doing that this season.
With the demise of Mattituck and other changes at Continental I'm very concerned no parts are to be available for my system. A call to Continental today yielded a big question mark for even finding a proper part number for an injector or a filter.
From what I gather there are some IO-240s and IO-550s with the system flying out there (in Liberty's and unsure what else) that Continental are officially "sort of" supporting. As for the Lycoming folks it seems we are on our own for good.
Dave Martin from Continental told me there were multiple kinds of injectors for the system. The IO-360s were first supplied with "version A" that was later changed to "version B" due to various issues -- "version B" is the same injector as is used on the IO-550 package and the IO-360 ECU needs a software update to use "version B" injectors. It seems Dave Martin is now gone from the company as are many other folks who had some knowledge of the system.
One question that someone out here might answer is if the "version A" injectors are the same as are on the smaller "currently supported" engine (IO-240?)..
My system runs just fine as it is and I'd like to keep it if possible.
I acquired a RV-7A with an experimental 180HP IO-360 with the AeroSance FADEC package installed two years ago. No issues to-date other than having to replace the backup battery (actually a $30 12V alarm battery) ...
So I'm looking for some spares. Maybe an injector and an inline filter.
I've seen the thread for installing a 5 micron Mallory 3160 fuel filter that seems to be really cheap insurance against gumming up the expensive and hard to find parts for works and plan on doing that this season.
With the demise of Mattituck and other changes at Continental I'm very concerned no parts are to be available for my system. A call to Continental today yielded a big question mark for even finding a proper part number for an injector or a filter.
From what I gather there are some IO-240s and IO-550s with the system flying out there (in Liberty's and unsure what else) that Continental are officially "sort of" supporting. As for the Lycoming folks it seems we are on our own for good.
Dave Martin from Continental told me there were multiple kinds of injectors for the system. The IO-360s were first supplied with "version A" that was later changed to "version B" due to various issues -- "version B" is the same injector as is used on the IO-550 package and the IO-360 ECU needs a software update to use "version B" injectors. It seems Dave Martin is now gone from the company as are many other folks who had some knowledge of the system.
One question that someone out here might answer is if the "version A" injectors are the same as are on the smaller "currently supported" engine (IO-240?)..
My system runs just fine as it is and I'd like to keep it if possible.
