OoooHHH Man Mark you got my blood pumping! It sounds great. You can most likely figure on another 8 plus mph with wheel pants. I lost 3 to 4 mph when I did not have a nose wheel pant on. I have also lost about 5 to 6 mph with warm weather. I was getting 170 to 173 indicated and now with temp some 50 deg. warmer it is indicating165 at 3300 rpm.
Joe Horton, Coopersburg, PA. joe.kr2s.buil...@juno.com On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:13:22 -0500 "Mark Jones" <flyk...@wi.rr.com> writes: > After work I headed to the airport and finished up my carb heat and > ram air installation. I had to make some mods and now it works like > a charm. At 6pm, I called for taxi to the active and proceeded to > runway 28. After a run up and a short wait for a spam can to land, > I was given cleared for takeoff, climb to 2000' then turn on course. > I firewalled the throttle and the KR sprang to life. Wow, with this > new Sensenich prop and good cool air into the carb, I could tell the > difference immediately as she picked up speed really fast. > 40...50...60...65...70...rotate and she popped right up into the > air. I glanced over at the rpm and she was turning 3300. I settled > in at 100 mph indicated and had a reading of 1250 fpm climb. I could > feel the power like I had never felt from this engine before. At > 2000' I turned on course and continued to climb to 4000'. There I > leveled off and trimmed her up. RPM was now settled at 3400 and the > airspeed settled in at 145mph indicated. The GPS was reading 152mph > ground speed. I was excited at these numbers as these were better > than I have seen before. I turned toward my old home airport of > Hartford which was 19 miles away. It did not take but a few minutes > to get there. On the way I noted that my CHT was 325, Oil temp was > 200 and oil pressure was 40. The engine was smooth as could be. I > began a descent into Hartford and turned on a three mile final and > greased one in. I took a short break there, checked for oil leaks > and found none. Not even a drop on the plane. Wow, that was a first. > I must have done a really good job with the rebuild as far as > sealing the engine up. Takeoff from Hartford produced the same climb > out numbers. I climbed back up to 4000' and headed down to my house > 20 miles away. I passed over at 145 indicated but had a tail wind > this time which gave me 159mph on the ground speed per the GPS. This > is way too much fun. All I kept thinking was how much faster I will > go when I install the wheel pants. At one point, my rpm was > indicating over 3500 in a shallow descent. My tach only goes to > 3500. That was the first time I had ever seen the rpm exceed the > tach capabilities.Way too much fun....did I already say that? One > hour had passed and I decided to turn towards Waukesha (UES) airport > where I am now based so I called the tower and reported 9 miles out > inbound for landing. The tower told me to report left downwind for > 28. There were three other planes inbound at the same time and we > were all about the same distance out. When I reported entering > downwind I was cruising at 140 indicated and the tower told the > three spam cans to extend their turns because there was a fast > experimental in the pattern. Man, did that make me feel good. After > the tower set up the three spam cans behind me, a Citation called in > from about 15 miles out inbound. At this point I was turning final > indicating 120mph and set up on a perfect approach. At touch down I > was indicating 70 and made a turn off about 1/3rd the way down the > runway. It was neat watching the three span cans come in behind me > and then the Citation as I taxied back to my hanger. My KR made me > very proud tonight. > > Mark Jones (N886MJ) > Wales, WI USA > E-mail me at flyk...@wi.rr.com > Visit my NEW > KR-2S CorvAIRCRAFT web site at www.flykr2s.com > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at > http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > Joe Horton, Coopersburg, PA. joe.kr2s.buil...@juno.com
