REFLECTOR: Resolved!: Oil temp issue (and heat in the nose)

[Hiroo Umeno]

I did my first test flight after installing the nose oil cooler outlet baffle yesterday.  It was another beautiful 75degree day in Seattle, much unlike my last flight when I couldn't climb for 5 minutes without busting redline on oil temps.

With the oil cooler outlet baffle, at no time during the flight, the oil temperature redlined.  In fact, it did not even get into the yellow zone and stayed comfortably in the high green (Yellow = 220F, Red = 230F).  That was with me flying at sustained 98Kts or so for a while.  Previously, the only way to keep below Red was to consistently fly 105Kts or more and avoid turning right for more than a minute or so.  Much improvement.

Another side-effect is that the heat in the nose appears to have been mitigated quite a bit.  Previously, after flying about an hour or so, I would start feeling rather warm in the foot-well and if the sun is out (like it was yesterday), it gets quite warm in the cockpit.  With the nose air duct outlet installed, it stayed comfortable through the 3.0 hour flight which included sustained "slower" flight and pattern work.

Now, my #6 still runs fairly hot and that kept me from climbing aggressively or doing any high-performance runs.  Next thing to fix.

The brake has been bled free of air and feels a bit better.  Still not as "assertive" as I like but that may be how it is with this set.  I am considering changing to all-metal tubing from part-metal, part Nylaflow arrangement I have now.

Hiroo
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