Build your own design and call it something else. Steve Glover
Sent from my electronic leash. > On Jun 5, 2016, at 20:06, andrew via KRnet <krnet at list.krnet.org> wrote: > > Here goes the spoon feed ?Don?t use it?. > > As I?m working on blue prints for the KRSuper1, and getting my outside > research done. I am settled on one huge taboo of the aviation community. This > bad boy is going to be tuned and built to run primarily on ethanol. > > ?But Cessna and the big aviation companies says it?s horrible.? Hold on and > let me get some hand on acknowledge your way. > > Dr. Maxwell Schauck has been flying on ethanol since the 1980?s, and flew > across the Atlantic in his Velocity back in 1989. While I was attending his > program at Baylor University I got to participate in his research for 4 > years. In that four years I came to find out a few things. > > 1. Ethanol is a superior fuel to 100LL. > 2. Oil companies will do everything to keep it out of mainstream use > 3. Ethanol has a natural octane of 113 > 4. Ethanol burns cooler, and will run smooth at 50 degrees past peak EGT > 5. If you add water, you get a horsepower boost, AND you don?t have to worry > about it damaging your engine > 6. Ethanol reduces engine vibrations by 50%. > 7. Ethanol doesn?t react with oil in the same manor as 100ll or mogas > 8. Ethanol will eat aluminum and natural rubber. Easily combated by anodizing > and using Teflon > 9. If an engine is tuned to ethanol vs. 100LL, you get a significant > horsepower boost with minimal GPH increase. > > This is all based on my personal experience working on our departments Pitts > S2B, Cessna 152, Cessna 172, Velocity, Piper Aztec, and Max Performance > Research aircraft prototype. We averaged a horsepower increase of roughly > 30-35% increase with ethanol vs. avgas, with no changes to the mechanical > tuning on the engine. To the point we had to order custom props for all our > aircraft, due to engine overspeed with the standard propellers. (The Pitts > S2B ran 300HP on 100LL and 350HP on ethanol). > > We also did water in fuel testing for the FAA while getting our Cessna?s STCs > updated (yes, Dr. Schauck owns the STCs for 152s and 172s to be flown on 100% > ethanol in utility category). We were able to add 10% water to the fuel tanks > before reaching peak EGTs. Had we tuned the engine this percentage would have > gone up. > > So why am I sharing; I plan on building the first KR that is designed to fly > on ethanol. And foreseeing the usual arguments I figured I would head off > most prior to having to repeat. > > So a Corvair with 100HP should obtain 130HP simply by tuning to run on the > 113 Octane ethanol. But we shall see when we get to that part of my build. > > What are your thoughts on the matter? > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
