I would think the corvair would shine in the climb. My prop on the Revmaster is a 54X50 and it spins at 3200 at cruise which gives me 135 mph. Could I really expect a higher cruise w/the corvair, 3200rpm's is 3200 rpm's. Would the extra power allow a higher pitched prop?
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 13:38:27 -0500 "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> writes: > Larry Severson wrote: > > > 30HH was just sold for $5500. It has flown with a corvair engine > for some > > time. However, it was not an efficient setup getting 135 MPH at > 5.5 GPH. > > Yes, I knew about that one. Inefficient, for sure. It's the one > that was > pulled directly from a Corvair and hung on an airplane, blower fan > and all! > That costs about 6 or 7 horsepower right there, and I also believe > it used > the stock carburetors, which have no mixture control, hence the high > fuel > burn rate. And it had the stock cam, which is pretty inefficient at > 3000 > rpm. Not one of the better thought out "conversions", but an > example of one > that's been flying for something like 20 years, nonetheless. I'd > love to > know more about it (like how many hours it's flown) if anybody > knows... > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL > N56ML at hiwaay.net > see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > > > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html > > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!
