Rather than get mad at the misinformation about engines and technology concerning them, which by the way Scott has been stated that way since the 70's and never updated, I will instead issue a friendly challenge. I will be willing to bet you that I will fly longer between services, smoother, with less maintenance, and 1/4 of the cost and better reliability than your certified engine. The famous college that William Wynne himself attended Embry Riddle is proving the concept of both FADEC engine control, and LIQUID cooled diesel engines running on Jet A. They are smoother, more reliable, and eliminate the mixture control effectively removing the human error in proper leaning/mixture control. Any engine who poor fix of over heating and detonation is the over richening of the air fuel mixture to provide additional cooling is to me poorly designed, and receiving the cheapest fix for the problem. The cylinders are not built with tight tolerances, but rather have to provide for massive amounts of expansion due to dramatic changes in clearances due to swelling caused by heat expansion. Take any late model engine apart and you will see engine honing marks still in the cylinder walls showing negligible wear after over 100,000 miles of use. Most Lycs wont even make it to TBO no matter how they are taken care of. But even if you are right on ALL counts Scott, and other netters listen up: if I bought just 1 Lycoming new, I could outfit 10 engines like Mark's Corvair for the same money, fly each 500 hours and never use all ten before I passed away, effectively never having a catastrophic failure. You all decide for yourself. Scott, lets see who comes out on top, friendly challenge to benefit all and make for an interesting conversation at the Gathering! You up for it? :o)
Colin & Bev Rainey KR2(td) N96TA Sanford, FL crain...@cfl.rr.com or crbrn9...@hotmail.com http://kr-builder.org/Colin/index.html
