Porche engines

[smallfly]

Seeing that aviation engines are so uotragously priced, has anyone ever considered using Porche engines?Four or six cylindre boxer aircooled.................beeeeeeg power...........seems the perfect choice to me.

[Thunderboy]

Hi Smallfly

Porsche actually used to make aviation engines for the Mooney's
all the originals have porsche engines (Mooney are the fastest light aircraft in that league incidently)

As a matter of interest
BMW of course was originaly an aircraft engine manufacturer hence their logo is a picture of a prop in the sky

Rolls Royce obviously still a very large manufacturer for the big aeries

VW conversions done for a lot of the micros as we have seen here and Subaru used a lot for Gyros

Mitsubishi was used on the japanese Zeros and other A/C during World War II

Not sure if there are any others but I think one of the Italian (fiat maybee) are also used on a light a/c ??

[Dre'man]

You know what they say about Porche???? A beetle in dress is a beetle non the less .............................................................Just kidding Porche drivers.

Can't like what I can't aford

[Tailspin]

Actually Porsch and VW started as Identical Motors, Even the type IV that is used in some of the aircooled busses etc are identical castings of the 4 cylinder VW motors even have the holes for the EGT CHT probes. Very interesting and surprising Specifically noticeable with the Type IV 411 motor