Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #57204
From: Ed Anderson <eanderson@carolina.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Turbo 3-rotor Lancair For Sale
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:55:17 -0500
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
No question, Tom,  if you can't get rid of the waste heat - then you don't really have a usable HP number. 
 
I've seen more than one time an individual successfully tweaking his engine and getting more HP only to find out that more HP = more waste heat to get rid of and then encountering cooling problems. 
 
My cooling system initially had more margin - however,  the more HP I got out of my engine the more narrow that margin became.  Now at WOT at altitude - the oil/coolant temps stablize around 190F -195F just 10-5 deg below my redline.  So that tells me if I get even slightly more HP, I'll probably run out of cooling capacity.  But, then for the reason your cited $$ - I seldom ever run WOT other than take off.  At take off on a hot day, I run a cooling deficit until airspeed hits 120MPH IAS.  Yes, I could eliminate that, but then the surplus cooling capacity would translate into additional weight and cooling drag for the rest of the flight - so I accept this situation (but, keep a close eyeball on it during take off).
 
Ed
 
 

Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 9:14 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Turbo 3-rotor Lancair For Sale

Ed: I am planning on similar HP for my Super charged 3 rotor Questair Venture Project with a Rotrex Supercharger. I have a cooling system worked out that (hopefully) will over cool this engine/oil/ PSRU/Intercooler initially. I think it will be easier and safer to try get rid of cooling and warm the engine up then chance over heating it. What good is HP you cannot cool enough to use. This seems to be the problem with most of these designs. And for that matter Homebuilts in general. I built a Lancair 360 many years back that had overheating problems that I finally decided to get it cooled to the point of using WOT anytime for as long asI wanted to throw 100 dollar out the tailpipes. It worked with the help of some plenum magic I learned from people much smarter than me.

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On Dec 23, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Ed Anderson wrote:

This looks like the one Paul Bannon?  and Lou Rubin out of South Carolina built - a dyno tested 500 Hp turbo three rotor. 
 
Ed 

Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 7:36 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Turbo 3-rotor Lancair For Sale

Anyone know whose project this is.  Looks like it could be a good buy for someone.  


Mark

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