Titan cylinders

clayton991 · Post by **clayton991** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:19 pm

Looking at a new top job, considering Titan Cerminil cylinders. Any reason to avoid them?

steve grewing · Post by **steve grewing** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 1:45 am

I have 'em and have had no problems in the 120 hours since installation. The engine has averaged 30 hours between adding a quart of oil. I used ECI's break-in procedure using Shell mineral oil for the first 10 hours. Phillips X/C 20W/50 thereafter.

Steve

clayton991 · Post by **clayton991** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 2:24 am

thanks

Tom Downey · Post by **Tom Downey** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:52 am

steve grewing wrote:I have 'em and have had no problems in the 120 hours since installation. The engine has averaged 30 hours between adding a quart of oil. I used ECI's break-in procedure using Shell mineral oil for the first 10 hours. Phillips X/C 20W/50 thereafter.

Steve

OBTW, that is not the ECI recommended break in lubrication.

read

http://www.eci2fly.com/pdf/BI07-2005.pd ... rks&page=5

dacker · Post by **dacker** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 2:13 pm

I just put 150 hours on my new rebuild with the Titans since Oct 01 last year... I am also getting in the vicinity of 30 hours per quart. I will get my annual at the end of the month and post the compressions.
David

clayton991 · Post by **clayton991** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:02 pm

great. thanks.

Tom Downey · Post by **Tom Downey** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:59 pm

The engine I built useing ECIs is about the same with 75 hours per year.

N171Q · Post by **N171Q** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:16 pm

I just had a bad deal with the carburator on a Titan overhauled engine.

We've just installed an O360 that was overhauled in 1999 and never taken out of the crate. We did our first leak check run up last week and the mixture had no effect, (no cut off at full lean.) I took the carb in to a shop here and they found not only the mixture linkage installed incorrectly, but the trhottle linkage had not been cottered, there was plastic gunk attached to one of the check vavles, and the float had an AD on it.

I don't know when the float AD came out, but the log entry detailing the engine overhaul says the carb was disassembled, inspected, and reassembled with new components.

I'm the third owner since the purchase of the engine from Titan, so I doubt I have any recourse with them... just bad luck for me I guess, but it set me back some considerable cash! Anyone else heard of this kind of thing with Titan?

dacker · Post by **dacker** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:26 pm

171Q, are we talking about the same Titan? I am referring to the Titan cylinders made by ECI. I didn't know that they actually did overhauls or do they?
David

N171Q · Post by **N171Q** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:03 am

Oops. Sorry 'bout that. My overhaul was from Titan Aircraft Engines out of LaMarquette, TX. Not ECI's Titan cylinders. I jsut saw Titan and started typing...

Post by **GAHorn** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:31 pm

N171Q wrote:Oops. Sorry 'bout that. My overhaul was from Titan Aircraft Engines out of LaMarquette, TX. Not ECI's Titan cylinders. I jsut saw Titan and started typing...

Umm... did you also perhaps mean Titan Aircraft, La Marque, TX?

dacker · Post by **dacker** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:55 pm

Earlier I said that I was getting around 30 hours per quart with my Titans, today I checked and found my oil at 6 1/2 quarts, I started out at just over 7. This is after 42 hours on the tach. Before rebuild I was getting 4 hours per quart... this is almost scary!

David

kloz · Post by **kloz** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:08 am

I have over 1000 hrs on the steel Titans. No problems.

HA · Post by HA » Sun Oct 08, 2006 11:19 pm

my first blown engine as a pilot was in a Twin Comanche, it never burned any oil either. turned out it was replacing the oil with metal from the lifters and cam