Speaking of Cooling

We just recently tore into an engine that had been sloppily cowled in an
experimental airplane. The bottom was fine but the top was cooked.
Cylinders, you could tell, had been fried, most likely because they had not
been baffled and cowled properly. Pistons, valves, cylinder walls, rings,
guides, seats --- all looked like they had been through hell.

Larry Smith writes:
We just recently tore into an engine that had been sloppily cowled in an
experimental airplane. The bottom was fine but the top was cooked.
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I stopped being surprised at that when Nixon was President :-)

Ask them what cooling-air pressure differential they were running, they just
look at you.

The problem is even worse with converted VW's since the ignorance is usually
sold along with the engine. Rather than telling them how to keep the thing
cool and how many hours they can expect between valve jobs, one outfit actually
claims their VW conversion will rust out before they'll wear out :-)

-R.S.Hoover

"Veeduber" wrote in message
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Larry Smith writes:
We just recently tore into an engine that had been sloppily cowled in an
experimental airplane. The bottom was fine but the top was cooked.
------------------------------------------------------

I stopped being surprised at that when Nixon was President :-)

Ask them what cooling-air pressure differential they were running, they
just
look at you.

The problem is even worse with converted VW's since the ignorance is
usually
sold along with the engine. Rather than telling them how to keep the
thing
cool and how many hours they can expect between valve jobs, one outfit
actually
claims their VW conversion will rust out before they'll wear out :-)

-R.S.Hoover



Not the same one that claims 100 HP, is it?
--
Jim in NC

On 22 Sep 2003 00:07:25 GMT, (Veeduber) wrote:

Larry Smith writes:
We just recently tore into an engine that had been sloppily cowled in an
experimental airplane. The bottom was fine but the top was cooked.
------------------------------------------------------

I stopped being surprised at that when Nixon was President :-)

Ask them what cooling-air pressure differential they were running, they just
look at you.

The problem is even worse with converted VW's since the ignorance is usually
sold along with the engine. Rather than telling them how to keep the thing
cool and how many hours they can expect between valve jobs, one outfit actually
claims their VW conversion will rust out before they'll wear out :-)

-R.S.Hoover


that a great claim :-) in other words: our oil picks up so much
moisture that it destroys the engine!

Stealth Pilot