Limbach L2000

Good evening friends. Recently got a plane with a Limbach L2000 engine. Is
this engine a Type 1 or 4 VW?

It has a single magneto and I want to add an electronic ignition. I
contacted Steve from Great Plains about machining a second set of spark plug
holes in the cylinder heads. He asked me if it was a type 1 or 4 and I did
not know the answer.

Thanks,
Jeff

Jeff wrote:

Good evening friends. Recently got a plane with a Limbach L2000 engine. Is
this engine a Type 1 or 4 VW?

It has a single magneto and I want to add an electronic ignition. I
contacted Steve from Great Plains about machining a second set of spark plug
holes in the cylinder heads. He asked me if it was a type 1 or 4 and I did
not know the answer.

Thanks,
Jeff

Hi Jeff,

If the exhaust ports ar on the bottom of the cylinder, it's a Type 4.
The Type 1 exhaust ports ar on the front of the front jugs, and back
side of the back cylinders.

Richard

That makes my Limbach L2000 a type 1 engine then. Thanks for the tip
Richard!!

Jeff

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Jeff wrote:

Good evening friends. Recently got a plane with a Limbach L2000 engine.
Is
this engine a Type 1 or 4 VW?

It has a single magneto and I want to add an electronic ignition. I
contacted Steve from Great Plains about machining a second set of spark
plug
holes in the cylinder heads. He asked me if it was a type 1 or 4 and I
did
not know the answer.

Thanks,
Jeff

Hi Jeff,

If the exhaust ports ar on the bottom of the cylinder, it's a Type 4.
The Type 1 exhaust ports ar on the front of the front jugs, and back
side of the back cylinders.

Richard

"Jeff" wrote in message ...
Good evening friends. Recently got a plane with a Limbach L2000 engine. Is
this engine a Type 1 or 4 VW?

It has a single magneto and I want to add an electronic ignition. I
contacted Steve from Great Plains about machining a second set of spark plug
holes in the cylinder heads. He asked me if it was a type 1 or 4 and I did
not know the answer.

Thanks,
Jeff

That engine is Type I based, but a lot of Limbach stuff is
Limbach-specific. I suspect that Steve's tooling will work.

http://www.limflug.de/doc/eng/produkte/L2000eoec.htm

Personally, I would not bother with the second plug or the second
ignition system. I've never seen an NTSB report for an accident
related to ignition failure on a VW. Fuel system failures, and the
ever popular Human Error, sure, but ignition failure does not seem to
be an issue.