Steve Witman inverted motor

On 04 Jan 2004 04:23 AM, Larry Smith posted the following:

"Roland M" wrote in message
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Looking people who have inverted motors and would like to talk about
it.

That engine is not the easiest to find. It was a lightweight
aluminum V-8 installed in Buicks and Oldsmobiles during the seventies.
It turned the prop at crankshaft speed, had high compression, and put
Steve Wittman into the bushes a couple of times. The last I paid any
attention to the engine it had been sold by GM to Rover and was being
used in Land Rovers.

A man adapted a similar engine to his Beachner Special and flew it for
several hundred hours, but not inverted, until it killed him.

There is a fellow in Canada who is flying a Bearhawk with the rover V-8
in an upright configuration through a PSRU. He actually mmanaged to fit
it inside the standard aircraft engine type cowling. Here are some
pictures:

http://www.rawlinsbrothers.org/bhfaq/flown/c-gzsy.html

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