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Old 18th Nov 2014, 01:48
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Mach E Avelli
 
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Thread drift! The whole LOP/ROP debate was done elsewhere only a month or so back.
I am completely sold on the benefits of LOP, and was when I did my DC 3 ground school nearly 50 years ago.
But this is about Jabiru engines. How can we run a standard Bing carburettor LOP? My understanding is you get whatever it thinks you need, and that will usually be well rich of peak.
Jabiru did try some lean burn jetting for a while, but I believe that it was too imprecise and caused more problems than it was worth.

The only way I could see to run a Jabiru LOP would be to get rid of the standard Bing set up and perhaps fit a Rotec. I would be grateful to hear from anyone who has done this and how has it worked out?
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