X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com X-SpamCatcher-Score: 50 [XX] Return-Path: Received: from [76.190.200.141] (account rob HELO Rob-Logan-Power-Mac-G5.local) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.8) with ESMTPSA id 2020547; Tue, 01 May 2007 22:54:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4637FDD8.6010506@Logan.com> Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 22:56:24 -0400 From: Rob Logan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4pre) Gecko/20070430 SeaMonkey/1.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: [LML] More Power References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Orenda V-8 engine is alive in Texas. > http://www.traceengines.com/ > The potential is 500 hp cruise with .44 bsfc hmm, I'm confused, this is 495 cubic inches.. the TSIO-550 is bigger so it can pump more air, so with a stoichiometric mixture one would be burning more fuel... and isn't that faster? so perhaps bsfc is some mechanical efficiency thing, but last I looked, the TSIO didn't need to pump water around. I don't get it..... Rob