Greg Reid

Thanks for the warm welcome. I had assistance (from Steve, the designer) in the early days as we figured stuff out, but have been on my own for the past several years. The learning curve for the airframe is far behind me ... I feel quite comfortable and confident in the work. I've rebuilt several motorcycle and auto engines and am pretty good with a wrench and hammer so don't anticipate TOO much learning curve for the engine work. But I'll have to be very meticulous -- starting with a very thorough hangar cleanup! -- before opening it up. It's my project for January-February weekends (and probably longer). It's a brand new 5100 still in the crate, but it's been sitting soooo long that I really need to do a full inspection and rebuild (e.g. re-honing the cylinder bores) before starting it. While it's open, I'll incorporate many of the suggestions for improvement that I've read in the JabiruEngines group ... and now HERE too. I leave tomorrow for three weeks' vacation in China (visiting my youngest son, who's been teaching ESL in Nanjing) for Xmas; will catch up on posts when I return Jan 9th. Greg P.S. Curious that the name of the LCH and TBI manufacturer has been asterisk'd out in my original append. I guess that there's a dictionary of "bad words" to hide, but don't understand why this is done for manufacturer names. Worried about spam? Also curious that my typo in the name of the ignition manufacturer made it through. (It's Electroair, not Electoair.) Now let's see if that proper spelling gets asterisk'd out. ;-)

Hi all. I'm building an all-carbon-fiber low-wing prototype in Daytona Beach, FL, USA. It's in the "Vision" two-place aircraft family (same designer, Steve Rahm), but biggie-sized to 4-place. The airframe is pretty much complete (well 90%, with 90% to go), and I'm just starting into the FWF work. I purchased a Jabiru 5100 (5.1L flat-8) in 2003 (!!!) and will be rebuilding and improving it before installing into the aircraft. The improvements will include the Rotec Liquid Cooled Heads, Rotec TBI, Electoair ignition, dual alternator, and a fair number of internal tweaks -- mostly driven from information gleaned in the JabiruEngines forum on Yahoo Groups. I just found about this forum through JabiruEngines -- specifically, the thread dealing with the stronger rolled through-bolts, so decided to register and follow along. Greg Reid