150HP Honda HRV Aircraft Engine! Viking Aircraft Engines 

This engine is bulletproof. We have a 2006 civic and it has 400,000 something miles on it with original engine. SUPER RELIABLE

Greetings from Utah. It is great how you highlight individual homebuilt aircraft builders as well as companies that build or supply aircraft engines and components. Keep up the good work. Thanks also for being so gracious and receiving my wife and I on a visit a few days ago to your home and to see your Zenith project, as we were travelling to Florida on business, and happened to pass near your home. There are so many high quality people in homebuilt aviation. :) :) :).

Another great video. I love the Experimental Aircraft Channel!

Great to see a successful alternative to a Rotax. More power and better pricing has to be a winner. Good Luck from Australia.

LOVE this video! We're very glad to know where Viking is on the 150. We REALLY like Jan's openness. It greatly helps us understand the product. We are very excited to see your next release on this smart step by Viking! Thank you for the production!!! Oh, yeah...very clever drummer segment....love the HRV videos in the intro...

Nice to have more options to choose 🤠👍🏻

GO JAN GO

Gotta love progress and options. Damn the drummer scared the pooch some!!

Now I know how to tune my engine!

Very interesting. Thank you.

Very informative

very good machines.. good planes also. Jan Leo is a good enginer..

Very talented guy. Also looks like great work.

Waiting for the Honda Hybrid electric conversion! Viking is in a good place for that launching!

Another great/informative and very much appreciated video. Although a Jet-A/Diesel power-plant is first choice for our/AeroTesla Aviation, electric/hybrid EDFJ design, have also been considering the Viking Aircraft power-plant as well. A # of logical reasons for this. Keep up the great work!

Very interesting, thanks.

affordable aircraft for the masses thank you team

I'm new to all of this & as I looked around I didn't understand why this Rotax brand seemed to have so much of the market so I'm happy to see Honda engines as I have a lot of faith in their stuff. Of course IDKnow how much has to be custom fitted to have a prop? I shall see & ty for the video

Great Work People!!!

You might know this question (answer). Long ago, there was a motor which was at one of those air shows, maybe Sun & Fun or Oshkosh. It was a 2-cylinder, opposed, 4-cycle motor that was being developed. It was unique in the way they were obsessed with making the motor as simple as possible. The rockers were not directly oiled, instead they ran (was it felt?) something which you'd have to relube every few hours (or perhaps each flight). They had some good ideas, does this ring any bells? Remember any motor like I described? Thanks, I love your channel!

AWESOME.. finally I would replace the continental and Lycoming for Honda in a heartbeat

Exciting to see that the paying customers will also be completing the testing on the new model..

I have a 1.5L civic with 350k. That car was very reliable. No power... But reliable.

I am putting a prop and wing on my HRV. 😄

I’d love to stick one of these in a Ford Pop or an MGTD.

Wow what a difference in price from something like a rotax, these are so much more affordable 👏

Veri veri god

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One day I hope they convert the 2.0 liter engine from the Accord and do a 250 horse engine.

That bottom end design is in nearly every modern Japanese engine

Pretty tough going up against the Apex. A variety is always nice though.

Such a good solution! Does anyone use any Toyota engines in their aircraft? It seems like Toyota would have a couple that would be a great choice as well.

Have you guys thought about using the new Toyota Yaris engine? 1.6L 3 cylinder rated at 260hp standard. De tune it so it isn't running near it's max and it would last forever. Would be a perfect aircraft engine!

Is there a projected cost yet? Do not see pricing on the website. What’s fuel flow compared to the 130 in flight?

The piece holding the bottom end is called a Girdle

Hi my twin brother and I really enjoy the viking engine videos ps wishing you guys would add the 1litre Mercedes smart car diesel engine to your line up 🙂

Imagine a searey with a 150

Aren't there still people waiting for their Subaru Eggenfellner conversions. Any eta on that?

Finally car engines, and lead free fuel

Alissa is a unicorn.

That “structural” plate or web you are talking about is called a girdle. Just an FYI for today.

He said the block bottom end girdle is in place of the rod bearing caps! Makes me wonder about his qualifications. (It’s main bearings).

I want use it in my home built helicopter..

Is there any chance we could see the dyno test on Steve Henry's engine?

Very informative! If it’s not confidential how does VAE get 25 brand new Honda engines no miles that were in cars? Hail damaged fleet?

Do you think you can get an STC for an Ercoupe?

Would be cool to have a 125HP Turbo so could climb without losing power

is it the R18Z9?? their are some aftermarket turbo kits for that engine

Will this fix a kitfox S7? Whats the weight?

would a 252hp 2.0T engine from a Honda Accord work?

so,this engine can use for heli diy? How much weight?

do you think civic engine 2.0L 306hp will be offered anytime soon for airplane??

I agree about the music in the videos. Leave the music out

Can it fly inverted?

Is this 150 hp could be installed in a experimental super Cub?

How possible is to provide only the propeller reduction gearbox? Which is its horsepower range?

Do they publish any reliability numbers on those engines?

I take these won't be designed to run negative gs or will they be modified?

7:00 it's called a girdle.

Who ever told you that you need music in a video lied to you.

The stronger bottom end will be an asset. I would really like to hear torque specifications and horsepower specifications that given rpm. I've been around engines since the 60s, and torque and consistent torque is what drives an aircraft. Horsepower has or less to do with it than torque numbers. Your stating that you can get by with the port injection rather than the gdi. GDI is not the best for an aircraft. The reversion alone, even if you don't use a PCV with at least an attendant catch can, which I would put on every aircraft especially the ones are turbocharged. GDI can eventually cause the engine to start to fail. It does not offer enough more power and fuel economy to justify the problems that come on down the road. The port injection is more than fuel efficient enough and enough power without the attendant fouling of the intake valves to more than justify having the port injection. The increase torque that comes with this 1.8 will make more difference than the little bit of extra horsepower. A number of videos I've heard people talk about how much better they liked the 130 horsepower compared to the 110 horsepower engine in their aircraft. It isn't the horsepower difference it's making far more comfortable. It is probably the extra 20 or 30 lb of torque that the engine is providing. This is precisely why the most sold brand new twin engine aircraft in the United States today is running diesel Automotive engines with a cast iron engine block no less. Because it puts gobs of torque and it does it consistently. Maybe I'm missing something here but I do however like the idea of the 1.8 being added to your line. I like the concept of these engines I think they are going to be ultimately more reliable. I also believe that the TBO time is probably going to be better even with the higher RPM. This looks like an excellent engine to be used in a twin. And that would be a twin in a couple of different configurations. And with a turbo added to it it could be superb. The next one I want to see is that Ford Barrel engine built up as an aircraft engine for a larger aircraft. I am seeing reliable engines in the 500 horsepower with that inline six naturally aspirated all aluminum engine.

Can i put this in a 1973 Piper Warrior??

el avion que tengo es un beaver rx550 con motor 582 rotax, ¿es posible ponerle un motor Honda 130?

Does it possible to swap this honda engine on Mooney M20 ?

Alissa is beautiful 💖

Are selling gear drive for honda L15 ?

Will any installation available for a rans s21?

The guts of an Integra into an airplane

1jz twin turbo conversion parts ?

How were the engines available? Where are the 25 Fred Flintstone HRV's?

I am just learning about GA right now and I am a bit confused. 1. How would you find fuel when hopping from airport to airport ? 2. Does Vikings modify the engine so it has redundancy safety systems?

i wanted to hear the weight on all 4 models 90, 130 ,150 , ........

Engine 1 how much bro ?

Yea but how much

So what went wrong back there @ 8:15?

I wish alternative engine builders would talk about torsional vibration and harmonics in the gearbox more. Without knowing where the prop resonance frequency is, and the torsional vibration of system, you are a test pilot. In the certified world, the engine is tested with each prop it's approved for, and even so much as changing the ignition *COULD* cause vibration issues. Testing is the only way to know, and I'm not talking about we have 100 hours on the engine and nobody has died testing, I'm talking about stain gauges and scopes.

Why not use a Honda Goldwing engine? Awesome flat-six, reliable as an anvil.

مساء الورد يا استاذ لو سمحت كم سعر المحرك مع المروحة

I wish you had something for a BD-5. Something around the 1.3 (100hp) range.

9:38 Prop speed ?

OK so now I know that the 150 engine is aaahh eeeh 5 lbs heavier than the 130 engine, would be nice to have exact weights. When looking at the 130 weight am I going to find that it is so much heavier or lighter than some other comparison?

Why would you not use a k20?

hola, yo vivo y vuelo en la sierra de Perú, 3356msnm o 11mil pies de altura, necesito un motor que funcione a mayor altitud, ¿cuanto es la altitud que puede alcanzar el motor Honda 130? gracias.

Whats the probability of putting an in flight adjustable prop on one of these?

Are these engine burning auto gas or AVGAS?

TBO ?

Why not use nitrous to take off in a competition stol plane?

What's the fuel burn?

A small turbo could make that 250 easy

How do you get brand new engines out of cars with no miles?

Where do you get 25 brand new 2020 motors, out of cars yet with zero miles? What happened to the cars?

2 spark plugs per cylinder?

every time I hear Viking prices I just think about how Rotax is twice that and still not as reliable. I feel like car engines have developed and matured more than purpose built aircraft engines and are just a logical choice. Viking has always been at the top of my list by a lot. Sure, they may not have some 250-300hp monsters, but how many people really need that. the efficiency and reliability of these will always outsell anything else to me.

When is the Honda type -R 306 HP going to come out? I'm waiting.....

I don't understand why they are charging 20k for a honda car engine and someone explain this to me

when the K20 about 200hp

How much does the 150 weigh with exhaust?

Is Honda fully on-board? I would think the basic design and product support from Honda would be superior to what was offered by an "other" (no specific name offered) light aircraft engine company, and the reconfiguration by this company would make it a good product to consider for rag and tube backcountry builds. Noted the crank truss plate- to prevent crank journal flex under loads negating the need for a heavier block....?

I prefer the 160 XZ option, fsr more powerful and importantly more economical.

Honda rates this engine at 141hp in the HRV. Where's the 150hp figure coming from?