Hi guys,pulled the trigger and bought a 4! very excited and have a million questions....this is what I'm trying to figure out today!
Is it possible to determine what compression pistons are in an engine,i.e.,formula,compression check etc? engine is a O-320 E2D, which was only 150 hp (low compression) but seems to have a lot more.
Previous owner (who was not the rebuilder) has supplied a bunch of receipts of engine parts and the piston numbers are 73851. This makes no sense to me as all the research i have done says these are O-235 pistons (low compression)
would these work in an O-320? I also have piston ring number and other part numbers if it may help.
I want the ability to run regular octane mo-gas, thats why the enquiry, if i can't its no big deal, just trying to find out.
This plane is great! runs awesome. Serial number is 1537, originally built by Ralph Dye, and then I believe Dave Lathum of Washington state. If anyone has any track history or info on this plane please pass it along!
From what I can tell most parts were ordered from Superior Air Parts Inc. From there it looks like Ralph had the engine built by Pointer Aviation. (Good place??)
Any help here guys would be greatly appreciated, again awesome site and am happy to be aboard!
Is it possible to determine what compression pistons are in an engine,i.e.,formula,compression check etc? engine is a O-320 E2D, which was only 150 hp (low compression) but seems to have a lot more.
Previous owner (who was not the rebuilder) has supplied a bunch of receipts of engine parts and the piston numbers are 73851. This makes no sense to me as all the research i have done says these are O-235 pistons (low compression)
would these work in an O-320? I also have piston ring number and other part numbers if it may help.
I want the ability to run regular octane mo-gas, thats why the enquiry, if i can't its no big deal, just trying to find out.
This plane is great! runs awesome. Serial number is 1537, originally built by Ralph Dye, and then I believe Dave Lathum of Washington state. If anyone has any track history or info on this plane please pass it along!
From what I can tell most parts were ordered from Superior Air Parts Inc. From there it looks like Ralph had the engine built by Pointer Aviation. (Good place??)
Any help here guys would be greatly appreciated, again awesome site and am happy to be aboard!
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