Relentless
Well Known Member
Last week we built a sweet XIO-360, Lightspeed/Fuel Injected 8.5:1 for customer who is ready to install and make first flight out of Hong Kong. Not entirely sure but this seems to be a first? We invited Mike, one of the teams builders to join us in San Antonio for our "free" customer build with Dusty.
The engine looks great and ran really well. Since the plane might not get much time in the air for the first flight we the customer requested we run the engine until we were sure it was totally broke in. Surprisingly we saw about a 15 degree CHT drop at about 4.5 hours running in the test cell at about 75% power. Then we ran sweeps to check hp and the engine made 193hp @2750, very nice!!!
Dusty and Mike after one day
Mike Manning the dyno
The engine looks great and ran really well. Since the plane might not get much time in the air for the first flight we the customer requested we run the engine until we were sure it was totally broke in. Surprisingly we saw about a 15 degree CHT drop at about 4.5 hours running in the test cell at about 75% power. Then we ran sweeps to check hp and the engine made 193hp @2750, very nice!!!
Dusty and Mike after one day
Mike Manning the dyno