On Jan 17, 6:43*am, "Peter Dohm" wrote:
. *So, if
you feel the need to swing a 70 or 72 inch prop and ALSO prefer a direct
drive engine that can idle on approach, they are still good numbers.

I could very well be a customer in the easily foreseeable future.
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The fact you CAN swing that biga prop doesn't mean you HAVE to.

I was think more along the lines of a crankcase machined to accept a
crankshaft machined to accept a connecting rod that was laying there
on the shelf, along with the bearing-shells to fit it. We STILL gotta
come up with four barrels an' four slugs an' four heads an' four
rods... and I've no idea in the blue-eyed world where those would come
from. Grab 'Speedway' or 'Jegs' and they got all kinds of neat stuff
but if you want four BIG finned cast-iron jugs you're still looking at
something around 4" diameter (ie, about 101mm) But they DO got some
beeeutiful rods. Old Ford style. Got enough bearing area to use in a
steam engine. (See, it has to do with the Specific Impulse and
converting Torque into Thrust an' neat **** like that... an' I show up
with a VW engine in my pocket and they just LOOK at me...

-Bob