REFLECTOR: Franklin injector port

[Ken C. Baker]

Larry,

I know that a gentleman named Harold Peck has done this sort of  
cylinder head machining for fuel injection on Franklin engines in the  
past. I have his contact info if any Franklin drivers are interested.  
To the best of my knowledge, his are the only injected Franklin  
systems that live up to the purported HP and static RPM claims that  
the 6A350 can deliver. Others who have used the primer ports on the  
intake manifold rails have seemed to have had low static rpm compared  
to a marvel-schebler MA-5 carburated engine.

Best,

-Ken Baker
Kenb at velocityaircraft.com



On May 29, 2008, at 7:35 PM, "Michael Watson" <mikewatsspg at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Larry,
>
> That's great. My last annual I had all 80/80 the A&P could not believe
> that after ten years the engine could be in such good shape. See what
> changing your oil every 25 hrs. and adding AV Blend can do for you.
> Great engines aren't they.
>
> I have the fuel injector rails connected to each manifold, but I  
> only use
> them for priming. $1800.00 for the pair. Ouch. I figured that if I  
> ever
> had a fuel pump go south, I can use the electric pump and the primer
> switch to limp home.
>
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Laurence Coen <lwcoen at hotmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>
> Franklin Drivers,
>
> I'm doing my annual and took the opportunity to take a picture of  
> the plugged injector port on my Franklin engine.  This was a custom  
> mod made for a customer in Brazil who canceled his order.  This was  
> done through Atlas Motors back in '95.  I don't know who did the  
> actual machine work but if Mr. Goodman is still floating around  
> somewhere he would know.  I expect that this would work better than  
> a manifold mounted injector.  By the way, my compression check came  
> up 79/80 on all but one that was 77/80.  That was taken cold 72  
> hours after last run.
>
> Larry Coen
> N136LC
> SE/RG Franklin/IVO
>
>
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