I checked the fuel flow to ensure that there are no restrictions and that, by gravity feed alone, there’s plenty of fuel flow post-fuel pump to supply fuel to the engine. To check this, I closed the emergency fuel shut off valve and disconnected the fuel line exiting the electric fuel pump and replaced it […]
Fuel shutoff valve
This is one of those jobs that I had been procrastinating for a long time, thinking it was going to be difficult. It turned out to be very easy, though. I was struggling a bit trying to think how to orient the fuel shut-off valve to enable remote cable control. Mounting it on an angle relative […]
Fuel level senders
I chose to install capacitance fuel level senders. The Velocity does have visual indicators of fuel level in the form of sight tubes mounted in the rear strake cutouts, but I suspect that these will not be very easy to see at night, particularly the one on the pilot’s side. The capacitance fuel senders will […]
Start of my Velocity project
It took me a few weeks to get this website going, so I’ll bring the log up-to-date by summarizing what I’ve been doing the last few weeks. On December 10/09 I flew to Minneapolis then drove to New Richmond WI to do a final inspection and crate up the Velocity project I would buy. I […]