Bill,
With respect to racing the Lyc guys are starting to put gearboxes on them to produce more power. Since the rotary starts with a gearbox there should be more headroom there. Also since the rotary is already competitive weight wise it can only get better when aluminum side housings are available.
Bill Jepson
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From: Bill Bradburry <bbradburry@bellsouth.net>
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Wed, Jun 15, 2011 19:05:47 GMT+00:00
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Mistral G-300 vs Lycoming IO-540
I think the baffles were mounted on that Lycoming engine.
Bill B
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From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of wrjjrs@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 2:40 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Mistral G-300 vs Lycoming IO-540
Dwyane,
Not true, as the Lyc requires a good baffle system to work well. No
water required of course. The Mistral is a bunch lighter even with heat
exchangers and coolant.
Bill Jepson
-----Original Message-----
From: Dwayne Parkinson
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Sent: Wed, Jun 15, 2011 11:28 am
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Mistral G-300 vs Lycoming IO-540
For what it's worth, the IO-540 pictured includes all of the "cooling
systems" so it's not quite a straight forward comparison, but pretty
nifty none the less.
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From: Ed Anderson
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 8:07 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Mistral G-300 vs Lycoming IO-540
Hey, we knew that Mark, I mean - how can you undertake a roll-your-own
engine conversion project without being an eternal optimist {:>)??
But, I hope you are right - they were so close.
Ed
From: Mark Steitle
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 8:28 AM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Mistral G-300 vs Lycoming IO-540
Being the eternal optimist, I believe that someone with a fat wallet
will come along and carry Mistral's torch across the finish line. They
were too close to give it all up for good.
Mark S.
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:22 PM, wrjjrs@aol.com wrote:
No Bill,
The Mistral PSRU was a all new straight cut spur gear unit.
Considerably tougher than the Slausen unit.
Bill Jepson
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-----Original message-----
From: Bill Bradburry
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Sent: Sat, Jun 11, 2011 16:50:06 GMT+00:00
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Mistral G-300 vs Lycoming IO-540
I was under the understanding that the Mistral engine had an SAE 2 prop
hub. The hubs are certainly not the same on these two engines!!??
The ratio is the same, but is the Mistral PSRU based on the same gear
set as Tracys PSRU?
Bill B
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From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Kelly Troyer
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 10:59 AM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Mistral G-300 vs Lycoming IO-540
Group,
Interesting comparison of packaging between the Mistral G-300
(Cosmo 20B, 3 Rotor to us) and the
Lycoming IO-540 engines...........
Kelly Troyer
"DYKE DELTA JD2" (Eventually)
"13B ROTARY"_ Engine
"RWS"_RD1C/EC2/EM2
"MISTRAL"_Backplate/Oil Manifold
"TURBONETICS"_TO4E50 Turbo
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