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Posted for "Frederick Moreno" <fredmoreno@optusnet.com.au>:

  I chose Fast and Cheap.
  
  
  
  
  
  Me too.  Several asked about my final engine selection.  Being retired
  and pinching pennies in a flat land, I just ordered a Performance
  Engines IO-550 EXP, normally aspirated, 370 HP.  I don' plan to use all
  that horsepower.  But I will be able to get 80% of 310 HP (a legal
  cruise power setting for the IO-550 in Columbia) at 12,000 feet yielding
  about 245 knots, according to my computer. Or get 65% at about 16,000
  feet which yields about 235 knots at 13 gallons per hour, a nice number
  when avgas is expensive.  Testing will see if I am right or wrong.
  
  
  
Fred
  
  
  
  PS the 65% fuel flow number is 50F lean of peak, also legal in Columbia
  IO-550 when at or below 65% of 310 HP.