You may have talked about this somewhere, but did you have a big bore 914 in this before the 915? If you did, was there something you didn’t like about it that made you change engines? Btw love your videos.
Hey fluffy! Ya I had 914 big bore. It was a great performer but there began to be little things that made me loose confidence. Carb float bowl dislodged, oil cooler fittings came off zero pressure just after take off they was exciting:). It was running hot. Since I fly in the mountains it was an easy call to swap. Plus the general feeling in the deep Comunity (the guys that build and fly theses planes a lot) was that the big bore is ticking time bomb. It was needed to get a high drag plane like SS up and around but with 915 out and now 916 it isn’t worth the danger. A lot of them have failed in the sky. A lot
I have a 914 BB with an edge EFI kit on my SuperSTOL. Overall I'm extremely happy with it coming from a 912 and the EFI has it running smooth. It's absolutely a different aircraft. But it does get hot climbing on summer days and I'll probably retire it early just to be on the safe side. There's no question I would go for the 915 if I could have afforded it. Apparently it's a trick to fit the 915 under the cowling as well. That was some of the speculative cost when I was originally thinking about it. @@hammitr
