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Old 4th December 2010 | 16:24
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IO540
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From: EuroGA.org
Everything I have read about engine management suggests that any improvement on the present mags will be really minimal and probably well below 5% on SFC - once you are peak-EGT or LOP.

Electronic ignition would be nice because in theory it could last "for ever". But these old companies are not IMHO capable of designing a piece of electronics that lasts. They can only just barely make a crankshaft that's had the right heat treatment, without any of the steps having been skipped
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