"bsalai" wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:


Standard procedures in many (most?) places says 50 or so ROP...about the
worst place you can run your engine.


That's where I was taught to lean to. I think the reason was that it is a
safe place,

Hardest on the engine is not waht I call safe.

whereas lean of peak has some advantages, but can get you into trouble
with detonation if you are not really careful.

No, you can't really...only if you lag going from ROP to LOP.


Any suggestions?


Here's a start.

http://www.avweb.com/news/columns/182132-1.html
May 27, 2001
Detonation Myths

We've all been taught about detonation in piston aircraft engines. It's what
occurs when combustion pressure and temperature get so high that the
fuel/air mixture to explodes violently instead of burning smoothly, and it
can destroy an engine in a matter of seconds. Right? Well, not exactly.