"Eric Miller" wrote in message
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"Bruce A. Frank" wrote in message
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I report one incident of
in-flight coolant loss and you paint the concept of water cooling as a
dangerous and deadly defect of auto-conversions.

Bruce, you too cavalierly ignore the dangers of water cooling due to the
presence of large volumes of Di-Hydrogen Monoxide!

http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

=D

Eric



You need ethylene glycol with that H2O, half and half. I have absolutely
no argument against flying with a liquid-cooled engine. P-40's with
Allisons, P-51's with Packards, Dick Rutan, and Chris Heintz proved they are
safe. Heintz lost his coolant over Lake Michigan and still made it to
Oshkosh, flying behind a Rotax 912.

You can have the advantage of closer tolerances when you cool with liquid.

I flew behind an 1800cc EA-81 Soob engine with Gates Kevlar Belt redrive 10
or so hours without a burp. Several people flew that airplane, a J-6
Karatoo, a total of over 100 hours before the owner sold the powerplant and
installed a VW engine -- a mistake.