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I was thinking the same as you : wooden floor doesn't look «professional». He should have made a video on a clean, more appropriate room

Skyfighter64 check out the Raptor. They are using a Audi Diesel engine with a canard shape aircraft.

@@mrhats830 I checked out that Raptor aircraft, and unfortunately, the information gleamed from the website is of little use in my inquiry about a homebuilt like the long EZ, and this inline 4 cylinder.

What diesel?

Your thinking the Hyundai based turbo gas 2L engine rated at 260hp. But it's not a diesel

@@brent1041 yeah thats it, for some reason I had diesel in my head, I thought I read or a video I watch said that but only thing I see on the page is regular gas. This can be problematic to get fuel unless you can find airports with regular?

Fenderbean1979 or carry your own fuel in a mini trailer tanker. I think there are surplus military tanker trailer that you can get for a grand( more or less)

Impossible to do on a cross country trip.

I too wonder about the connector tube. Aircraft engines usually rotate at fairly low rpm, but if they're small capacity they must have a gear reduction drive becuse they won't make 100hp from 1300cc at 2700rpm as small engines need rpms to pump the same amount of air as a larger engine at lower rpm (using the air pump model as an indicator of power production). Props can't go too much faster than 2800rpm (depends on diameter) because the tips go supersonic. This is why 350hp engines are 520-540cubic inch 6 cylinder, 100hp engines are 4 cylinder and 200cubic inches and 400hp 8cyl 720 cubic inches. Turbos are used, but mostly in turbo normalized applications rather than true boost as you get in automotive use - however there are quite a few true boosted aviation engines but more in the sport and private categories rather than in commercial. Turbo normalizing offers huge advantages since the moment you start going up in altitude the power of the engine decreases due to lower air density. The plane itself actually starts moving across the ground much faster for the same speed on its airspeed indicator but this great effect is wasted if the engine stops producing good power, so they put a turbo on it and it restores the engine's performance and the plane picks up a lot of extra speed for free meaning the time to destination is much less therefore the fuel burn is much less, meaning they can offload fuel for payload, since carrying fuel doesn't make you as much money as carrying freight or passengers. In a twin engine plane a turbo normalized engine may actually allow you to fly on one engine for a bit. In some naturally aspirated twins, if you lose an engine you need to land immediately.

As one who was an early snowmobiler using Skiroules with their Rotax engines noted for quitting regularly I wholeheartedly agree. running for four hours but repairing for 16 is fine for ground confined engines... but in the air..not so much.

@@brustar5152 excellent point, I would find it exceedingly difficult to pull over on the side of the road to do a minor engine adjustment at 12,000 feet in the air. Remember, that the word experimental on the side of an aircraft is defined as " Fly at your own risk."

Exactly my thoughts

The problem with doing stuff like that is, when you do that in a car, it runs at 10% of power output most of the time, with occasional stints above that, while in an aircraft you have long stints of 100% power and high power output after that as well much higher than automotive applications. And this is why typically no automotive engine is going to be well suited to aviation. You can polish these engines all you like but it still is not a purpose designed aviation engine. That said if I were going to do an alternative engine 1/2 VW with harly heads and cylinders is pretty interesting as they are lightweight, fairly reliable with EFI, and probably the easiest engine to work on in the 80-100hp range. I really wish there was a affordable twin prop pusher plane kit out there....

@@Wingnut353 I would never have guessed that 1/2 VW with the Harley parts could put out that kind of power. The only 1/2 VW l ever saw up close was in a freshly built scaled down Cub. It was a beautiful plane. I asked around the airstrip and found people who said it flew as well as it looked.

That said I have been up in a small single engine airplane!

There is a gearbox with these engines as they run about 5800 max and 5000 cruise.

Means the same thing, different people word it differently

@@zuestoots5176 Yes. Smart people and idiots spell it differently. Dynanometer is not a word. Even RU-vid's spell check knows that.

Nah thats the guy trying to flog the veloce 600