This thread has been on fire the last few days, but now it seems a little slow.

Anyway, my first flight report;

I'd have to say my mood right now is pleased, bordering on giddy. The engine started on about the fourth, fifth, sixth, whatever flip. Idle was nice. I didn't touch the needles and ran it on the ground (in my plane) for a few minutes. Shut if off, made a cursory inspection, started it again (2nd, 3rd, 4th? flip), ran it for a few more minutes, then put the petal to the metal! She was running nice and rich..."Baaah bahhh bahhh bahhh" throughout the whole range, though it would clean out a tad nearer full throttle. I just circled around for a while, then tested a few uplines. Wow! Even running rich (fuel/air and gas/oil ratio) she just keeps going up and up - slowly, but just the same! I have to say the plane just flies better all the way around. This is a "real" engine man! And swinging a 22" prop the plane really slows down nicely when coming in for landings. Can't wait to try some more down lines. On a sharkstooth I can pull the vertical, get in my half roll, continue on the vertical for as long as I feel, then not just barely "flop" over the top with hardly any control response, but I can actually push over the top with a nice radius still having enough prop blast and airspeed to maintain control.

So I got in two flights tonight and hope to fly out the remaining break-in fuel (two gallons Lawnboy Ashless 32:1) tomorrow, then make the switch over to the synthetic at like 40:1 or 50:1.

I know. I know. Talk to you at the end of the summer or after a few years when I have many gallons of fuel through the engine. But indications at this time are that this should be a fabulous engine.

Can't wait for the break-in to finish and for my Mejzlik to get here!!!

I'll check in later.