Denny wrote:
: soon as you pull the throttle you lose the cooling... Now, be aware
: that as you climb at full throttle you are losing manifold pressure
: with each thousand feet gained, which is automatically reducing the
: engines output power, reducing the strain, and improving the cooling by
: allowing the mixture to go even richer than it was a thousand feet
: lower...

... so leaning to a constant EGT in a climb is a great way to keep the *same*
overrich mixture without going too rich.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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