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Fri, Sep 03 2010 @ 21:05 in Switzerland

First engine start

Sun, Mar 12 2006 @ 16:13 in Switzerland
Contributed by: Mick
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I started my engine this afternoon. It took about two seconds of pressing the start button, and it fired right up. Nice little rumble. Very smooth.

I used my wife's camera to take some video, but for some reason the file got corrupted, and is not readable. That's rather disappointing, since it was such a great first start. Oh well.

To prepare for the start, I've been turning the engine over by hand with the prop about 30 - 60 blades every day for the past couple of weeks. Not sure if that helped, but it didn't seem to hurt.

I let the engine run until I could start to feel warmth on the tops of the radiators - about 2-3 minutes. After shutdown, I figured the coolant level in the coolant tank would have gone down a bit, but it didn't seem to change at all. Perhaps I got all the air out right away. We'll see after I run the engine a bit more.

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First engine start

Authored by: drill_and_buck on Mon, Mar 13 2006 @ 19:19 in Switzerland

Most excellent.

Nothing like real engine noises!

Congrats,

-Mike Draper