What kind of cruise #'s did you get with the subaru and the corvair? I love the subaru engine but they just wont last long at that high RPM all day.4800 is still kind of steep but it's bardly in the power curve. The corvair allows a much nicer power deleviery down low.
Justin N116JW www.geocities.com/attngrabber14/Home ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 4:55 AM Subject: KR>(no subject) > Hello Colin. Steve here. At that time I had a subaru 1800 cc Asian version > 100 HP. The intake was the stock dual carb setup with 90 degree adapters and two > zenith stromberg altitude compensating carbs from England. They came off an > 850 cc , 1961 mimi cooper. (I used to have one of these before BMW ruined it). > The engine ran fine for 500 hours but all this hard running (4800) rpm at > cruise wore out the bottom end and a severe loss of oil pressure, The engine still > ran with 10 psi. I switched to corvair with no weight penalty and same HP. I > have only had this one up to 8500 feet and it ran very well with the ellison. > I was in the middle of the swamp and thought I was all alone at this altitude > when a delta 767 passed overhead at 10000 feet. I descended rather quickly. > He was on approach to Fort Myers. > Steve > > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html >
