Another maker of front bearings, and I have seen is work, it is Fantastic. Bill Clapp makes a beautiful product.
www.clappscars.com Phil Matheson -----Original Message----- From: Mark Langford Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 4:55 AM To: KRnet Subject: Re: KR> Corvair engines From: "Nerobro" wrote: > Because I"m a bit out of the loop, has anyone built a bearing section to > bolt to the end of the crankcase to take flight loads? is that what the > "5th bearing" is? and has anyone tried to design one that completely > removes everything but torque loading from the crankshaft? There are two guys making "fifth bearings" for the Corvair. Dan Weseman makes $1000 version that seems to work, and it's shown at http://fly5thbearing.com/. Roy Sarafinksy makes a more integrated bearing that bolts to each case half and splits with the engine cases, for about $1800, and it's shown at http://www.roysgarage.com/new/Welcome.html . I was planning to make one like you describe for the Type 4 VW that I was going to use, and am still kicking it around for the Corvair. There's a Corvair engine for aircraft list similar to this one (run by me) that can be joined following the instructions at the top of http://www.corvaircraft.org/ , and a lot more on the CorvAircraft engine conversion at http://www.n56ml.com/corvair/. Mark Langford ML at N56ML.com website at http://www.N56ML.com -------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options
