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Building Integrity
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Date: 6-15-2015
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Number of Hours: 2.00
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Manual Reference: Section 2
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Brief Description: Chop it off like a NINJA!
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So The cowls came off, the intake plenums came off, and the cooler scoop got chopped off. The new idea here will be to direct air coming in through the CHT openings to the oil cooler which I HOPE will solve 2 problems. Lower the oil temps while raising the CHT's. And boy you know this is already losing the drag from that scoop. All I really need to see here is a moderate drop in oil temps. Like 15 degrees. If they drop that much then this will be the final configuration and I'll drop in a bigger and better cooler and call this nightmare OVER!
Personally, flying around on really hot days with oil temps as high as 215 doesn't bother me a bit. In fact, unless it hits 220 at some point inside the engine, then the moisture in the oil won't boil off. So all these guys saying to get your temps down to 180-190....eh, no thanks. Let's keep it hot, thin, and get rid of that corrosion causing H20!
Right now I'm seeing 250 degree temps on a 90 degree day on climbout. I need to see that drop to about 225 and that's a big difference. The good news is that my oil cooler is small and cheap which means there is a lot of room for improvement. Again, if this new ducting can drop my current temps by about 10-15 degrees, I'll have found the gold. More would be even better!
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Time for cowl removal
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Ready to start glassing again
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Scoop be gone
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