----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick and Robin Russo" <patru...@myfairpoint.net> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 10:48 AM Subject: Re: KR> BMW engine v VW and Corvair
> Phil > Tell me a bit more about your type 4 with a gear reduction....make it > yourself?, Great Plaines?, gear driven or belt drive? Prop extension?? > Cruise RPM?, Prop lenght? aaaannnd...are you satisfied with it? > Pat Russo > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "phillip matheson" <phillipmathe...@bigpond.com> > To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> > Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 6:11 PM > Subject: KR> BMW engine v VW and Corvair >> >> This has always been my question when using car engines in aircraft. Take >> my >> VW type 4. It has a gear reduction and the engine RPM reaches 4000 = 100 >> HP >> >