Continental Titan Aircraft Engines - Engine Week 2020 

I was at one time excited about the 340 engine. But you can buy a UL Power 390is 6cyl with FADEC, a lot lighter and a very simple for DIY installation at around the same money. I feel the Titan engine is behind the times, plus it’s pushing 300lbs at flying weight. There 0-200 D 100hp Continental engine is much better suited for the Kit market like a zenith 750. The Titan 320,340 is just to heavy for LSA kits. I’m excited to hear your interview with the 0-200 118hp engines from the boys in Alabama. That’s a engine you can put on a LSA aircraft in my opinion. And not use up all your payload weight. Great interview Brian. But he seemed to dance around some of your questions in my opinion. Wish he would of got into more of the flying weight from Titan.

Absolutely love your videos have learned so much and very knowledgeable, can’t wait for more to come

Thank you so much for putting in the time on such in-depth questions to the engine manufacturers. I would have liked to see Aeromomentum on your list, though. I am seriously considering them for a CH640 type build (4-place low wing) and wish they could either get that AM-20 version up and running, or put a turbo-normalizer on the AM-15 in order to pull a 4 seater around the sky. Their AM-20 (170 hp) page has had "information coming soon" posted on it for over a year....

Love this series on engines

Im finding this engine week series very informative thanks

Another wonderfully informative video. These various engines by different companies are so interesting...thank you for bring this to us...I am not a pilot, but I have always been interested in flying and airplanes. The prices are as widely different as the technology!!!

Learning a lot from these videos. Thanks

Very informative! Thanks for uploading.

Mine is being assembled May 18th. Can’t wait.

Great videos, thank you for putting these together. Hope to see a updated video on the Delta Hawk in the next round of videos.

Engine using lead is so 1960's... ancient technology.. Wish Titan would get into the 2020's..

Continental has been the engine of choice for many years and they are a solid engines. But they continue to build off a platform that is almost becoming obsolete as other engine builders advance through innovation and rethinking. I just hope Continental doesn’t get left behind as they require their engines to be ran on leaded gasoline’s. The world has moved on in an effort to eliminate lead as a pollutant in our environment and I’m sure the argument will be made that it’s just a small amount but why have any when through design and innovation it can be eliminated all together. When I see the representative of a large company that is there to promote their product and they’re not showing a great amount of enthusiasm during their promotion I get the feeling that the entire company moves at the same pace and this would explain why innovation is slow and production costs are high. The idea of, “We have been doing this for a long time”, comes to my mind thinking that there are a lot of areas in the company that can use improvement or leaning of duplication or fat especially when they produce ever component of their product. I know I sound critical but I’m reminded of working for a large company just like Continental where we would hold production meetings just to discuss the flow of parts. The sad part was that computers track these parts and to me it was a waist for 7 managers to spend 1 hour a day two days a week discussing this flow. And when I asked, why we were doing this the VP replied, because we have always did this. My comment was, but we can all see the production on our screens and when any issues arise we go to the production cell and take care of them. I see large legacy companies have a hard time changing their mindset when I hear, “because we have always done this way” not that this was said but when Continental recommends that you need to run leaded gas through their engines to maintain reliability I think of Buggy Whips. You can make a great Buggy Whip but if they are no longer in demand then being great at making them doesn’t really matter. Tough interview Bryan you had to keep pulling info the entire time. I’m betting they are use to standing up in the production area giving the Continental promotional pitch and having a hard time in 2020 dealing with changes.

No bullshit interview. Great thanks

Was Continental taken over by Textron? Because that engine sure looks a lot more like a Lycoming than a Continental.

Thanks for posting this. As I recall, Piper ordered 1200 370’s and Cessna has an STC to install the certified 370’s into the 172’s.

Cheaper rotax ?

Was hoping for some 540 info

Please go to “Pinnacle engines” so we can see how a continental should be built, they built the engine for the Lancair Super Legacy “One Moment” that won at Reno.

AC-Aero on the horizon?

Anyone know if you can go to the factory and assemble your engine under their supervision? Or at least watch them assemble your engine?

Ol mate needs a harmonic balancer.

No engine week video on aeromomentum, aerovee or jabiru?

this interview was like pulling teeth !!! lol continental engines has supplied my butt safetly through the air many hours but they need a different spokesperson thats more energetic and really appears to be in love with their product they would do much better in the media!!!11

Wouldn't the fuel injected have higher hp and far better efficiency?

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The Continental sales guy couldn't be any less excited to talk about his engines. Surely there is someone working there that actually has some enthusiasm talking about these engines that they could have had do this interview. The poor host is pulling teeth trying to get information about the engines.

Vintage style.

It's worth noting China owns Continental.... One reason I refuse to go with a Titan engine for my experimental cub build. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Aerospace_Technologies

Why is it called Continental if they show Lycomings??????

The shaking of his head and eye rolling at 23:15 shows his lack of interest or understanding for technology and customer demand. Regular petrol and diesel are far better for reaching a larger market. Much easier for everyone to source, especially here in AUS.

So just a knock off Lycoming then.

I love this series, but these old fossils? Continental should be ashamed to still be selling this ancient 'technology'. Carbs belong in classic cars, not on planes. The fuel injection on these still isn't proper fuel injection is it? They are either throttle body, or analogous to the 1970s Bosch K Jetronic, where the injection is per cylinder, but just continuously sprays fuel. These aren't going to give you the per cylinder mixture control and proper FADEC capabilities. Carbs are nearly a century past their sell by date. This is 2020 and people are still messing with their mixture control. This is ludicrous. Lead should not be needed in any modern engine. My two liter car engine has never been torn down, it's at 207,000 miles, it has never seen lead. I has run to nearly 7,000rpm most days. Due to the amount of time I've spent in traffic it the car has averaged under 40mph. So... that's over 5,000 hours of hard use It has had two water pumps and two sets of spark plugs. These engines cost more than my car, they are almost devoid of modern technology, and yet their arcane technology is accepted as good. I got an oil cooler, alternator, seats, and wheels for that price. Why would anyone do this? Find a decent modern engine.

$30k for an 'experimental' engine? I don't want to laugh right in the guys face, but no. Hell no. There is almost no price difference from a certified one. What IDIOT buy these things???

$40k+ for that engine. Trying to be nice to you yanks, but you really need to wake up. It's the 21st century, you are making engines that are of a 100-110 year old design. I do wonder what the states would be like if they didnt import engineers from other countries.