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Skeptical not only about the speed, but about a 'factory delivered' TN MSE. The factory may however installed the turbo. I would verify both, and not with the seller!

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The 10.5 gph is possible.......I doubt the 200 KTAS.  The price is high.......you can buy a really nice 252 in the US for around $150K.

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I have a turbo 201 and it doesn't go that fast. If I take it up in the flight levels I can get 190 KTS, but it takes all day to get up there and about 70 miles to get back down.

I usually run LOP at 9.3 GPH, if I feed it more fuel my TIT gets to high. I can run ROP at about 10.5 GPH I go about the same speed with lower TIT.

I usually fly in the high teens at about 175 - 180 KTS

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I have a turbo 201 and it doesn't go that fast. If I take it up in the flight levels I can get 190 KTS, but it takes all day to get up there and about 70 miles to get back down.

I usually run LOP at 9.3 GPH, if I feed it more fuel my TIT gets to high. I can run ROP at about 10.5 GPH I go about the same speed with lower TIT.

I usually fly in the high teens at about 175 - 180 KTS

Is it a Mooney factory installation?

Does it cost you more to maintain then a non turbo? If more, how much more?

Is the TBO can reach 2000 hrs as well as the non turbo?

If you would compared this engine to a six cylinders continental as the 252, what would you say?

Thank you for taking the time...

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I would guess that if it was done at the factory it was just a M20 turbos unit that was installed under the M20 turbos STC by a factory mechanic.

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I would guess that if it was done at the factory it was just a M20 turbos unit that was installed under the M20 turbos STC by a factory mechanic.

Check the airframe logs, the paperwork with the plane should show what was done and by whom. There should be the STC mentioned above.

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I looked at the picture of the plane, it is the same conversion I have. M20Turbos turbo normalizer. You can tell by the shark gill vents on the cowl. It was never offered by Mooney.

 

Maintenance is a bit harder because the already crowded cowl is way more crowded.

 

I’ve had the exhaust crack which I welded myself, and mounting brackets crack which I sent out for repair ~ $100 per weld repair. Burned up the turbo once (no fault of the system) it cost $2400.00 to repair (never stopped working, I found the damage through inspection). I have had to repair the air box twice because it chafes on everything; it is in there so tight it is impossible to keep it from hitting something. The pressure controller went south it cost $200 to repair (Approved Turbo Components is approved to repair it).

 

Other than that it works great!

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I agree that it is very likely an M-20 Turbos aftermarket kit.  It could not have been installed at the factory because that kit did not exist in 1997!  Perhaps it was installed later by the factory service center.

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