Mazda rotary in an RV4
GS
something). Has anyone heard how this worked out. I am a little fed up with
Lyc. what with costs as high as they are and still they seem to have
problems. I expect I would need something like 160-180 + available horse
power and wonder if this is reliably attainable
Any thoughts??
Greg
Russell Kent
Greg,
There's a rotary engine email list. Start by going to the ACRE (AirCraft
Rotary Engine) website: http://home.earthlink.net/~rotaryeng
The mailing list is: mailto:rota...@earthlink.net
Tracy Crook's plane is still flying fine.
Russell Kent
Ed Sullivan
>Hi I have heard about a fellow who powers his RV4 with a rotary (Tracy
>something). Has anyone heard how this worked out. I am a little fed up with
>Lyc. what with costs as high as they are and still they seem to have
>problems. I expect I would need something like 160-180 + available horse
>power and wonder if this is reliably attainable
>Any thoughts??
>Greg
>
>
Yeah, but not cheap and they are not immune from problems. We had a RV-3 with one locally.
Ed Sullivan
Glenn Scherer
>Hi I have heard about a fellow who powers his RV4 with a rotary (Tracy
>something). Has anyone heard how this worked out. I am a little fed up with
>Lyc. what with costs as high as they are and still they seem to have
>problems. I expect I would need something like 160-180 + available horse
>power and wonder if this is reliably attainable
>Any thoughts??
>Greg
>
Greg, the man you're looking for is named Tracy Crook. He has over 800
hours on his Mazda powered RV-4. Although I don't have his email
address, the following link is to the Aircraft Rotary Engine web site
maintained by Paul Lamar. From that link you can see pictures of
Tracy's aircraft, and I believe you can also subscribe to the ACRE
mailing list which will allow you to contact Tracy and several others
who are flying behind Mazda engines.
http://home.earthlink.net/~rotaryeng/
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Ernesto Sanchez
Paul Hastings
on a 13b last year he got rid of his carb setup and put a redundant fuel
injection ECU of his own design on. I have ridden with him and the mazda
is smooth and quiet compared to a lyc. or cont. The rotary has the added
benefit of having 2 spark plugs per rotor built in from the factory.
Paul Hastings
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Patrick Hicks
If you hear of a engine less performance plane please let me know, preferably
in the mid-west. I have a buddy with a converted canard. It looks great.
Patrick Hicks
Bowling Green, Ohio
Patrick Hicks
GS
Can you elaborate a little? Do you mean that the engine will not run if the
primary ignition set fails? ie zero redundancy?
DAlexan424 wrote in message
<19990625212735...@ng-cr1.aol.com>...
>>The rotary has the added
>>benefit of having 2 spark plugs per rotor built in from the factory.
>
>Yeah, but the trailing plugs add absolutely nothing to power output and
cannot
>be counted as a redundant system. The were there only for emissions
reasons.
>
>Dale Alexander
>Master Mazda Tech
>Velocity 173 RG Elite
DAlexan424
Paul Hastings
RPM drop, So they must effect some degree of redundancy.
Paul Hastings
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DAlexan424 wrote in message
<19990625212735...@ng-cr1.aol.com>...
DAlexan424
>RPM drop, So they must effect some degree of redundancy.
>
Hey may have jiggled the timing values, but I'd like to see him try a take-off
or even maintain altitude while only runny one the trailing plugs. In the stock
configuration, the trailing plugs act only to burn the end gases.
Dale Alexander
David Munday
a third set of plugs for more power. Tracy did change the plug
timing, I believe.
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 08:03:29 -0500, "Paul Hastings"
<revg...@integrityonline31.com> wrote:
>If you turn off the leading plugs in Tracys RV There is very little
>RPM drop, So they must effect some degree of redundancy.
>
>
>DAlexan424 wrote in message
><19990625212735...@ng-cr1.aol.com>...
>>>The rotary has the added
>>>benefit of having 2 spark plugs per rotor built in from the factory.
>>
>>Yeah, but the trailing plugs add absolutely nothing to power output and
>cannot
>>be counted as a redundant system. The were there only for emissions
>reasons.
>>
>>Dale Alexander
>>Master Mazda Tech
>>Velocity 173 RG Elite
>
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Philippe Vessaire
écrivit:
> I think the Mazda Lamans team might disagree with you too. they added
> a third set of plugs for more power. Tracy did change the plug
> timing, I believe.
Dual plugs do both more power and redundancy for all types of engines
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