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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Get ready for some unbridled power too, especially
in your cool air. I've been experimenting with a 3 blade and 4 blade
prop to reduce the "leaping" effect. The Mintor is piped on the factory
pipe very conservatively so when I switched from a 17x12 reg to the 15.75x11 3
blade the RPMs only dropped 150 (instead of the 300 I was told to expect).
there is a broad torque curve which you will feel in the midrange when
flying.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>--Lance</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=fishgod@pobox.mtaonline.net
href="mailto:fishgod@pobox.mtaonline.net">Michael Laggis</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 23, 2004 12:12
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Fuel Line setup for A Mintor
170</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for all the ideas on the fuel line
setup. Wayne, I must have brain farted because I forgot all bout it your
setup until you mentioned it. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have to say that I am so impressed with the
170. Now I am no expert I have only been in the hobby for
3 1/2 years but this motor responds to throttle stick movement
better then anything I have run before. My YS 4 stroke was good but
not like this. I am sitting at Idle for a while then I quickly move to
mid throttle and wham it's there. Back to Idle and there is no hesitation
no winding down. Idle to full, seemed that ever click on the throttle
stick resulted in an RPM increase. Snow or not I am about ready to get
this bird put together and go to our paved field and fly it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR>Thank You</DIV>
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<DIV>Michael Laggis<BR>AKA Moose Boy<BR>NSRCA 3618 <BR><A
href="http://www.alaskarc.org">http://www.alaskarc.org</A></DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Eric.Henderson@gartner.com
href="mailto:Eric.Henderson@gartner.com">Henderson,Eric</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 23, 2004 7:40
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: Fuel Line setup for A
Mintor 170</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=692263316-23022004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>A
neat idea that I saw on Ken Velez's plane was that he ran the vent line exit
out behind the tank at the bottom of the fuselage. This stops the fuel
running out of a full tank if his wife dips the nose when carrying the plane
out to the flight line. I now use the same system instead of a low pressure
check valve. This means that only one line is seen exiting the fuselage
just behind the cowl on my Focus-2. It also means that my wife stopped
complaining about fuel stains on her shorts. This applies well to engines
that use pumps and need an atmospheric vent line.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=692263316-23022004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Regards,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=692263316-23022004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Eric.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
discussion-request@nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request@nsrca.org]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>Nat Penton<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 23, 2004 11:15
AM<BR><B>To:</B> discussion@nsrca.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Fuel Line setup
for A mintor 170<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wayne, bless you. I'm hooking up a tank right
now and could not decide what to do with the vent line. The answer was
so simple. Nat</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=wgalligan@goodsonacura.com
href="mailto:wgalligan@goodsonacura.com">Wayne Galligan</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 23, 2004 7:03
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Fuel Line setup for A
mintor 170</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Do you remember how I had the Mintor set up
on the Aries you flew when you where down here. Very simple and
easy. I used two 90 degrees Tetra elbows that came out side of the
fuse. Run just one line to the engine and one line back top the
tank. Just space the elbows so you can put about 1 1/2" of
tubing on them and fuel it there. I never have any problem with
flooding. Run the vent line behind the fuel tank and exit out the
bottom of the fuse. This way you wont have fuel coming out the vent
line on the downlines.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wayne G.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=fishgod@pobox.mtaonline.net
href="mailto:fishgod@pobox.mtaonline.net">Michael Laggis</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org">NSRCA</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, February 22, 2004
8:19 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Fuel Line setup for A
mintor 170</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well to let you all know the mintor is
running beautiful. I have about 3/4 of a gallon through it
now. One thing I did was instead of pulling the fuel line off of
the pump and filling the tank on the test stand I put in a T and
fuel dot. However when filling I soon found that not only did the
tank start filling but the engine was getting flooded. I
have seen where people run the fuel line outside the airplane off
of 2 fittings. Would this be a better solution? I know
the YS DZ guys have the same problem. What is
everyone else doing besides using a pair of
hemostats? </FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV><BR>Thank You</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Michael Laggis<BR>AKA Moose Boy<BR>NSRCA 3618 <BR><A
href="http://www.alaskarc.org">http://www.alaskarc.org</A></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>