Hello All,

 I have a LIV-P in my shop that we are converting to turbine. It had a Engineair V8 ( the owners had over 85 thousand in the V8 firewall fwd installation) that we removed and we are installing a -6 Garrett. The performance numbers look very promising. The garrett is one of the most fuel efficient turboprops and it has a high altitude compressor. This one makes 715 Shaft HP up to 31 thousand feet. I expect our fuel burn to be around 26-27 gal/hr at the flight level cruise. The engine weights 360 lbs and we are using a 3 bladed Hartzell prop. We are building our own firewall fwd installation. We are using a 32 gal belly tank and a baggage comp. tank with 160 gal.+ fuel.

 We bought this engine for about 2/3 the price of a new TSIO-550 Continental. It has over 1000 cycles remaining until the next event, which could be 1500+ hours depending on how many hours per flight. (1.5 hr x 1000 cyc.= 1500hr).

 We should see 330-340 KTS true airspeed an the upper flight levels.

This installation will be a little different from the other Garrett installations.

We will have about the same money in the components for this turbine as the Continental installation package from Lancair.

I know this all sounds too good to be true so we will have to wait and see if I can back up the above claims.

Swaid Rahn

N753M (LIVP-T Walter)

N606CF LIVP-T Garrett in progress.