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PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:16 pm    Post subject: E Ignition Reply with quote

I'm told there is an electronic ignition in the works for the M-14P. Can anyone educate me here? One of the questions I have is if using electronic ignition will have an impact on type of fuel that can be used.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:31 pm    Post subject: E Ignition Reply with quote

Probably the main thing that has an impact on the type of fuel used in the M-14 is whether or not it has any Alcohol, Toluene and Olefins in the auto gas which are real bad on the internal parts of the carb and fuel lines and even the sealants used on wet wings.

My wife is a PR person for a refinery and one of the chemists told her in Louisiana, stations don't have to mark gasoline as having alcohol if the alcohol content is less than 10%. That is when I asked what else was in auto gas as we checked the fuel capacity in our Pups and decided to save a few bucks and use auto gas. The next morning we had swollen lines. We had done a test and could find no alcohol so I thought there must be something else in the fuel that was not real friendly to flexible things.

For the amount of flying most of use do the extra buck or two per gallon will not matter if you encounter just one engine out.

I think George Coy is working with the factory on an electronic ignition but if it ain't broke why fix it?

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Nic Weigelt <nicholasweigelt(at)shaw.ca> wrote: [quote] I'm told there is an electronic ignition in the works for the M-14P. Can anyone educate me here? One of the questions I have is if using electronic ignition will have an impact on type of fuel that can be used.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:42 am    Post subject: E Ignition Reply with quote

We have developed a prototype electronic ignition that is a drop in replacement for the M9 magneto. The reason for the development is that there is a short supply of m( magnetos and their replacement parts. I do not expect it will effect the fuels used.
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I'm told there is an electronic ignition in the works for the M-14P. Can anyone educate me here? One of the questions I have is if using electronic ignition will have an impact on type of fuel that can be used.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:15 am    Post subject: E Ignition Reply with quote

We've been flying on mogas STCs for many years, and luckily we have not encountered the fuel issues you've outlined. We only have one company that sells blended fuel.
Avgas is $4/g more expensive here (BC) than 91 purple farm gas (pretty sad for an oil producing nation), and given the 100-150 hrs/yr or more we expect to fly, it makes a huge difference.
Re the ignition, hate to admit it, ahem, but as long standing flat engine types, we're a bit intimidated by all the sparks and smoke and oil etc, LOL. My dad is 68, is not a passionate monkeywrencher and has decades flying flat engines and wants things as simple as possible. The possibility of starting an engine backwards doesn't thrill him. Me, I am a monkeywrencher and don't care either way, I just badly need a bigger a/c on floats that's relatively cheap to fly and our third is a pressure welder and HD mechanic who hates the idea of even going to EFIS/EMS and is going to give me flak for looking into the electronic ignition. However, my father is contributing his M5 on floats toward the project so he calls the shots.
Thanks for the input, much appreciated.
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