Reverend Sam,

The experimental is a Long EZ. Sorry you had an accident in an ultra light. I have never flown one and won't. You normally don't have a problem finding a place to land when the engine quites. It right below you.

I'm still not completely sold on selling the XK. Pardon the pun. I checked the air cleaner system yesterday and it was clean like it came from the factory. So that is good news. I think I will do an oil analysis and see how that comes out. Any suggestions as to where to send the sample?

EZ

 

A little off thread, but I fly a Long EZ that I built (10 years).

I'm not yet sold on my decision to sell the XK. Sorry for the pun. But I checked the air filter system and found it totally clean just like it came from Jag. I need to do an oil analysis and need info as to where to send it.

I am really dissapointed in Jaguar for their poor testing of the 4.0 engine and transmission regardless of what they claim. I'm an old flight test engineer and if I had done such a sorry job as they did I wouldn't be sending this message right now. I have stood up for Jaguar many times with other car people since I own an XJ now and have owned an XK150S. But they sure did a sorry job this time and it sounds like other companies did the same sorry job.
EZ

 

I use Blackstone Labs for oil testing

http://www.blackstone-labs.com/

 

XCOR may have a nice mod for you ;-)
http://www.xcor.com/products/vehicle...ocket_faq.html

Not sure if it is fair to be so harsh on Jaguar for the nikasil, although the warning signs where there with the BMW data. So the engineers where maybe a bit stubborn in thinking that the quick warm-up of the engine could counter the negative effect of sulphur.