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Old June 27th 05, 03:26 PM
xyzzy
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Jay Honeck wrote:
: The 4-cylinder IO-360 didn't provide nearly the take-off performance or
: useful load of the 6-cylinder O-540, and had a very hard time making it
to
: TBO. It was somewhat better "upstairs" (where a turbo really shines)
than

Turbo Dakota has a Continental TSIO360 engine, a 6-cyl model. It really
should have been called a Turbo Archer...



Wouldn't it be nice if Teledyne Continental and Lycoming didn't both have
"xxx-360" engines? Here all this time I thought it was the Lycoming
version...

Thanks for the clarification.


IIRC, those designations came from the military. Continential used to
name them based on horsepower (C-90, etc) but after the army started
using their engines in WWII, they standardized on the current
nomenclature and Continental went along (O-300 was originally going to
be C-145, etc).