Engine upgrade. STC or 337?

[RobertGary1]

On 2/25/2017 at 4:56 PM, N201MKTurbo said:

It's about 30K for a 4 cylinder so it would be about 180k.

And that era you'd probably expect to change at least one of those cylinders every 10-20 hours. 

-Robert

[aviatoreb]

41 minutes ago, RobertGary1 said:

And that era you'd probably expect to change at least one of those cylinders every 10-20 hours. 

-Robert

With that many cylinders, I wonder if you would even notice if one of them ate a valve, or went cold.

[Hank]

3 hours ago, aviatoreb said:

With that many cylinders, I wonder if you would even notice if one of them ate a valve, or went cold.

Can you imagine what the JPI screen would look like for this? Much less how many little round dials there would have been then . . . Don't think you'd be able to make heads or tails out if either readout set if flying single pilot IFR!  

[1964-M20E]

Somewhere on here there was a 360 view of a B36 engineers station and the number of dials and gauges was mind boggling.

[Bryan1016]

Dad flew the KC-97 Stratotanker with P&W 28 cyl, 3500 hp engines and turbojets on the wing tips.
They carried a 55 gallon drum of oil. If an engine started taking oil, they would shut it down instead of using up their whole barrel.


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