On Aug 27, 7:01*pm, "
wrote:
On Aug 26, 11:14*pm, Ron Wanttaja wrote:

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:07:46 -0700 (PDT), "

wrote:
everyone says "ooh -- auto...dangerous" but no
one can explain exactly why.

1. Ignition systems with insufficient redundancy.
2. PSRU failures.
3. Difficulty in implementing efficient liquid cooling systems.

Ron Wanttaja

i heard the e racer had an inflight engine fire and eventually the
designer through in the towl on auto engines. *anyone remember why?

Sure do.

"From: Dorothy Dickey
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 8:46 PM
To: Young, Ryan
Subject: Engines for E-racers
There is nothing wrong with the Buick engine it's just that I no
longer favor
auto engines for aircraft applications. This is because it is not
possible
to achieve equivalent reliability and performance of an aircraft
engine for
the same or less money... So why do it? Shirl"

Remember, this is a guy who designed an airplane around an auto
conversion, and devoted serious time, money, and twice, almost his
life to making this idea work. If you think you can do better, step
right up.

This whole thread smacks of TROLL, but you can read what more of what
I think, along with the E-Racer guy (Shirl Dickey), and a little from
the Belted Air Power reduction guy (Jess Myers) he

http://users.lmi.net/~ryoung/Sonerai/BOP.htm

You can also search this newsgroup for anything by Corky Scott, and
watch his chronicle. He never flew his auto engine conversion, after
working on it for years.