Jim C's Panel

[msbelton]

Hi Jim,

I just noticed you posted a photo of you panel and new exhaust
earlier in Dec. Anyway I was kind of wondering how you like the set
up you have for your panel. It looks pretty clean. What exactly do
you have? ...and what are you monitoring with your EIS?

Thanks,

Mark

[Jim C]

Hi Mark -

My panel is set up how I like it - It fits my scan and overall stays
pretty simple with the main info I need.

Panel Top L to R - Vert Card Compass * MicroAir 760 Radio
Bottom L to R - ASI * EIS * T&B Coor

4 switches are: Master * Radio & EIS * Fuel Pump * T&B Gyro
Then next is L Mag * R Mag * Start

I have my GPS so I can see it without it interfering with my frontal
visibility. I use to have it up top of the panel, but it is much
better visibility wise down where I now have it.

The main panel of the EIS is set up with:
Top - Eng RPM * Alt * Hi EGT
Bottom - Oil Temp/Psi * VSI * Hi CHT

You can look at a lot of individual numbers by scrolling throught the
EIS at anytime. The altimeter works prety well and I also match it
against the altimeter on my GPS - They stay pretty close. Took me a
couple of flights to get use to the Altimeter readout vs the gage,
but it works pretty well and I now like it.

As to the new exhaust system - I don't care for it at all and it has
already cracked again. I will be changing it out again soon. It
only lasted about 39.4 hours before it cracked again, with the crack
being worse than the first one with 183 hrs on it, it didn't fit
properly when I got it and it interfered with the CHT probes. This
seems to be a problem that several of us with the HKS seem to be
having. I am taking the first setup which I liked much better and
which seemed to be have more power output (not sure why) and am going
to put a ball joint at the "X" joint, redo the slip joint where the
muffler and pipes come together, and put a second support on the
muffler to relieve some of the pressure weight of the muffler on the
pipes. Hopefully I'll have this done over the next couple of weeks.
Once I test it and see how it is going to hold up, I'll post another
pic. I'll go ahead and throw a pic of the cracks up there in a few
minutes as well so you can see what one of my problems are. The
engine runs fantastic, if I can just get this exhaust problem worked
out.

Jim C