CorvAircraft> Kitfox With A Vair In The Air

[Dave Morris "BigD"]

Did you install the sheetmetal deflectors that clip in between the 
cylinders and the pushrod tubes and the piece that fits between the 
cylinder and the oil cooler?

Dave Morris

At 08:02 AM 3/26/2007, you wrote:
>After various set backs over the last two and a half years, thurs. March
>the 22nd. the time seemed right for the first test hop after replacing
>the Subaru EA 81 with a 164 cid non smog Corvair in my Series 5
>Kitfox..  This first flight was short!  About a half a patch.  But I
>have witnesses. Chase One and Ground Com. I got a cht warning light and
>landed.  The second flight was yesterday, the 23rd of Mar.  It lasted
>for a patch and a half. Chase Two and Ground Com were there also.
>After much discussion the consensus is I need more space for the air to
>exit the cowl, and a larger oil cooler. I have an eight fin installed. I
>was offered one of the originals which looks more like an aircraft oil
>cooler (Chase Two,  found in a Junk Yard when he was interested in
>Corvairs back in the seventies,  he would loan it but not sell it) or a
>twelve finned one he also has.  More later.         Norm, San Angelo Tx.
>
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