Of course, Ed, you can try to justify not reinventing the wheel, or better yet be smug in 60 year old technology, but the experience of a man who hand builds $40,000 to $50,000 engines for a living is just fine for me. If you know better maybe it would benefit us all. Chemicals are something that you need to move along with. Today's are better than yesterday's and tomorrow's better than today's.
Al DeMarzo Visit the Ercoupe Swap Page Free, Easy and No Membership Required http://www.ercoupeowners.com/swap/swapbook.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Ed Burkhead To: ety Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 11:37 AM Subject: RE: [ercoupe-tech] engine rebuilding Al mentioned: > Can't say who, but there's a pretty successful boutique > engine builder that uses the same stuff the Yamaha factory > racing team uses between the cases. Available at the > Yamaha dealer. Hummm. Doesn't the Yamaha factory racing team expect to tear down their engines pretty frequently, perhaps as often as after each race? We hope we won't be opening our aircraft Continentals for 12 years (and how many don't get opened for 30-40 years?). In the absence of good information, I wouldn't choose the Yamaha factory racing team stuff unless there's evidence it lasts well for decades. JMHO Ed Burkhead http://edburkhead.com/Ercoupe/index.htm East Peoria, Illinois ed -at- edburk???head.??com (remove the ? marks and change -at- to @)
