Belted Chevy Engines.

[Guest extralite]

Thought this was an interesting company. Produces belted Chevy conversions, mainly for RV^ and 7's. Uses Chevy Vortec V-6 4.3 liter, and the Chevy V-8 350 engines. Seems to be a good fuel saving over the standard fit and couldnt find any reports of problems encountered so far.

 

Belted Air Power - Products.

 

 

[Guest RLP]

If they go anything like they do on the ground they should be nice. My chevvie big block is a beaut.

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

saw a scaled P51 flying at Scone Airshow while back. powered by a Chevy. looked like a P51 went like a P51 sounded like a ski boat.:confused:

 

Ozzie

 

 

[Guest ROM]

Kingaroy Gliding Club have been running a V6 in their Pawnee tug and have now converted the tug to a 6 litre GM V8.

 

There are a few more Pawnee airframes that are in line to get these V8's for tug duties in various clubs so nothing new there as the gliding movement has got this basically sorted some time ago.

 

Kingaroy Soaring Club - Queensland Australia

 

 

[facthunter]

V8 Chev.

 

Being a simple push-rod motor and an alloy block of proven strength, it would be ONE of the auto sourced engines that might prove to find a place in aviation. The tug situation (with hot climbs and cooling problems on descent) like the paradropping situation as well, should be better addressed with the liquid cooled motor. I still think the air-cooled motor has a strong future in "normal" aviation applications, but I would like to see more adjustable "cowl gills" fitted to control cooling temps and keep drag to a minimum with both types. Nev..

 

 

[pylon500]

sounded like a ski boat.

This Titan 51 conversion with a

 

YouTube - Titan T-51 Fly Over motor doesn't sound too bad..;)

 

Arthur.