turbo
Well Known Member
a nice 100 hp $13,000 engine.http://www.vikingaircraftengines.com/ 6 in rv-12 so far. 65 sold so far. show specials available to save $.
I don't think the Honda Fit engine lays down with the block horizontal in the Honda car. Unless dry sumped, and even then it would have to have scavenge pickups in the valve cover as well as the sump, I would expect it to have oil control problems.
I'm happy to see Jan's new gearbox employs a proper TV damper. I'd hope to see many hundreds of hours of flight testing on the package before release for sale though.
I'm not keen on the intake manifold design. I can't see how this could duplicate the airflow or tuning lengths of the factory intake although the design missions are a bit different. It's easy to strangle breathing with a poor intake as we've seen before on other conversions.
Again you are spot on. Which begs the question...how many hours if any did one of these fly on an RV-12 before being sold as applicable to an RV-12? As far as that goes, how many of these are flying besides the company test bed? Nothing against the proprieter but I'm always curious when a product is already being sold when I haven't see much verifiable history or data on it. "65 sold so far and 6 in RV-12's" doesn't tell me anything other than someone can sell something.
I have no horse in the race either way and if it all works out that'll be fantastic.
Cheers,
Stein