Probably shouldnt be flying...
- Thread starter Chris-St Louis
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RovinAround said:
That's at least worth a Sat AM courtesy chuckle.
It's very common for the "race" car guys to come in with their 5 gal tanks for some 100LL. They mix it with car-gas and burn up their tires and what not. Nothing like a little leaded-high-octane.
Ironic in a simple kinda way, I burn car gas (Amoco Prem) in my Lycoming O-320 (yes, I've got the STC) and they burn 100LL in their Hot Rod Lincolns.
ptschram
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noee said:
With black chrome bores and nickel valve seats, and (argh, what were the hard valves, damned memory) no problem.
The process of chroming junk cylinders is another patent the guy I did my A&P with developed. The back of the shop was full of "Junk" cylinders he'd restored to airworthy condition through his process.
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apg said:
Yeah, but I thought there was something more exotic used on the aircraft engines due to the extremes of temperature they encounter and expansion/contraction rates.
It never failed to amaze me how many differences there were between things that were done as a matter of course on automotive engines that were either forbidden on aircraft engines or done completely differently.
ptschram said:
its all about the cost of certification. the easiest thing to do would be variable igniton timing but its still fixed at one point. it just to costly to recertify the whole thing every few years to justify incremental improvments.
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David Despain said:
That only covers the fuel. There were so many things that I got screamed at that were common in terrestrial engine repair. The first time I pulled out a magnetic retrieval tool, I was threatened to such an extent I doubt a good proctologist could have recovered it. I didn't realize that magnetized parts would effect instruments, etc. I learned quickly!
Of course, there were things done on aircraft that folks thought were crazy on cars, like mechanical fuel pressure gauges!