Thursday, May 29, 2014

Overdue update

It's been a while since I updated the construction log. Most of the heavy lifting gets done on weekends, but the last few weekends have been busy: Chapel Hill, NC; Orange County, CA; Atlanta, GA; Austin... so. Lots of excuses. But, some progress:

PMag installation:


Simple and straightforward, plug and play.

I was not too pleased with the adapters. Plane spark plugs are 18 mm, but "regular" spark plugs with larger gaps (and better performance) are 14 mm. So, there EMag air sells adapters that can convert the size for you. Problem is, they are brass, or some sort of soft metal. The fit and finish is terrible - the threads were full of burrs and I had a really hard time getting them to thread into the cylinders without cross threading them. Anyway, I'd go with another vendor's if I had to do it again.

Also, I installed the engine temperature sensors for the G3X system: exhaust gas temp, cylinder head temp, and oil temp: