Fuel Line setup for A Mintor 170

[Lance Van Nostrand]

Michael,
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.

--Lance

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Laggis 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 12:12 PM
  Subject: Re: Fuel Line setup for A Mintor 170


  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.  
  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.

  Thank You

  Michael Laggis
  AKA Moose Boy
  NSRCA 3618 
  http://www.alaskarc.org
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Henderson,Eric 
    To: discussion at nsrca.org 
    Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 7:40 AM
    Subject: RE: Fuel Line setup for A Mintor 170


    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.

    Regards,

    Eric.


    -----Original Message-----
    From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Nat Penton
    Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 11:15 AM
    To: discussion at nsrca.org
    Subject: Re: Fuel Line setup for A mintor 170


    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
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Wayne Galligan 
      To: discussion at nsrca.org 
      Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 7:03 AM
      Subject: Re: Fuel Line setup for A mintor 170


      Michael,

      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.

      Wayne G.
        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: Michael Laggis 
        To: NSRCA 
        Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 8:19 PM
        Subject: Fuel Line setup for A mintor 170


        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?    

        Thank You

        Michael Laggis
        AKA Moose Boy
        NSRCA 3618 
        http://www.alaskarc.org
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.f3a.us/pipermail/nsrca-discussion/attachments/20040223/00ea7106/attachment.html