KR>Subaru Power

2008-10-12 Thread Gavin Donohoe
Has anybody tried Subaru power and was it successful?? What kind of horsepower and performance did you get ??? Does the extra weight over aircooled engines affect overall performance? Thanks Gavin --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.

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2008-10-12 Thread larry flesner
>Has anybody tried Subaru power and was it successful?? >What kind of horsepower and performance did you get ??? >Does the extra weight over aircooled engines affect overall performance? >Gavin ++ There are a number of Subaru installs flying i

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2008-10-12 Thread ronev...@aol.com
Les Palmer has achieved good performance with his EJ-22. The numbers that he has quoted me are as follows: 1,850 fpm climb rate, 170 mph max level speed and 150 mph cruise. My KR-2s is almost ready to fly. It is equipped with an ej-22 with a Les Palmer built reduction unit and prop. Since m

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2008-10-12 Thread Mark Langford
ronev...@aol.com wrote: .>Even though the Subaru > EJ-22 is heavier and there are engineering issues to be dealt with in order to > achieve a workable engine, it is my opinion that it is a quantum leap over the > VW or Corvair. The main reasons I feel this way are due to the increased > reliabili

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2008-10-12 Thread ronev...@aol.com
I didn't say that Corvair engines are unreliable. I have no idea how many have failed while being used in aircraft. However, RFI has installed over 400 Subaru EJ-22 engines in auto gyros over the past several years. The single failure that has occurred happened on an engine that had experienc

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2008-10-12 Thread Mark Langford
RV wrote: >I didn't say that Corvair engines are unreliable. I have no idea how many have failed while being used in aircraft. < I guess you could have read the sentence "The main reasons I feel this way are due to the increased reliability and wt to power ratio offered by EFI", two different

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2008-10-12 Thread Mark Langford
Oh, I forgot one. 4) Fuel under high pressure. This is never a good thing... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford

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2008-10-12 Thread ROBERT COOPER
onev...@aol.com To: kr...@mylist.net Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 12:08 PM Subject: Re: KR>Subaru Power Les Palmer has achieved good performance with his EJ-22. The numbers that he has quoted me are as follows: 1,850 fpm climb rate, 170 mph max level speed and 150 mph cruise.