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I have had long conversations with engineers at Ford, GM, Hyundai/Kia, Toyota and Honda specifically about what their testing procedures are for final validation. Running an engine for 40 hours straight at max power and max torque are a minimum. Without pulling out a few bankers boxes full of notes engines can be run for over 100 hours straight for durability testing. You live in the Detroit area, you must know some engineers you can talk to about validation testing. As for 80 year old technology still being so prevalent, that has to do with regulations and market size. After all when you look at the engineering of the DeltaHawk Diesel it's nice, but it isn't that far removed from the old GMC 2 Stroke Diesel motors of the 50's and 60's. In fact I'd call it 80% the same. Metallurgy is a little different, DH is a more refined system, but you'd hope for that 50-60 years after the fact.

You forgot a zero on the end there Andy. If I have one wish for this decade it's that people would take 30 minutes to research the actual load testing that goes on for modern auto engines, so we could rid ourselves of the FUD being ignorantly regurgitated about durability under load at higher engine speeds.

2020 goals, finish my Private and start my Instrument.

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First 35 secs for the aviation laugh, the rest for your own reminiscing of your last 40 years.

The price mentioned at Oshkosh from them was $90k installed. I believe that was for a Cirrus. There were a few videos about it. Here is the thing, the design of that motor is very little changed from the GMC 2 stroke diesel motors of the 50’s and 60’s.

@Alan Fox to the white courtesy phone

You can always go with one of the Aeromomentum choices since it's experimental. They have a 260hp option for just under 20 AMU's.

Can’t speak exactly to this, however, in a turbo race car the wastegate is there to limit overboost. Put it to the floor and you don’t have to worry about boost surge or overboost from whatever amount of boost you’ve decided upon. My my understanding with wastegate in the Mooney K’s was that you could go full throttle without the worry of managing the throttle to control manifold pressure. The wastegate would limit you to 36,38,40,41 inches (I don’t know what the correct number is). Others with better knowledge can correct me.

Well, we know he hasn't been updating his website! Looks like it's right out of Netscape 3.1.

$45K for what you see, another $45K for the install.

For MotoGP I download the BT Sports feeds from RacingForMe. One of my favorite photos of Ruben from "back in the day"

Don't forget about the Apple Refurb store. I almost never buy new from Apple I buy from their refurb store, usually save a good chunk. Full factory warranty and a second go-around with QC. Last two MBP's have been refurbs. Once lasted five years, this one is almost three (Mid 2015 15")

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What do you consider "full sized dog"? I ask as the owner of two now deceased Mastiffs.