wrote: > And not to forget the Orenda V-8 program that was actually installed in > King Airs. I recall the Canadian government backing that venture and > Elliott Aviation installing with an STC but after a brief appearance at OSH > I never saw them again. I suspect some money was lost in that program too. > > > Paul > Legacy > On 2011-05-25, at 1:44 PM, Frederick Moreno wrote: > > See Thielert's experience. > > > -- Swaid L. Rahn Indigo Aviation, Inc. 940 Mock Road Springfield, Ga. 31329 Cell 912.655.0966 --20cf3054a7250afd4304a4232807 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hello All,

=A0I 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=A0fwd = installation)=A0that we removed and we are installing a -6 Garrett. The per= formance numbers look very promising. The garrett is one of the most fuel e= fficient turboprops and it has a high altitude compressor. This one makes 7= 15 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 insta= llation. We are using a 32 gal belly tank and a baggage comp. tank with 160= gal.+ fuel.

=A0We bought this engine for about 2/3 the price of a new TSIO-550 Con= tinental. It has over 1000 cycles remaining until the next event, which cou= ld be 1500+ hours depending on how many hours per flight. (1.5 hr x 1000 cy= c.=3D 1500hr).

=A0We should see 330-340 KTS true airspeed an the upper flight levels.=

This installation will be a little different from the other Garrett in= stallations.

We will have about the same money in the components for this turbine a= s 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.

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:59 PM, paul miller <paul@tbm700.com&g= t; wrote:

And not to forget the Orenda V-8 progr= am that was actually installed in King Airs. =A0I recall the Canadian gover= nment backing that venture and Elliott Aviation installing with an STC but = after a brief appearance at OSH I never saw them again. =A0 I suspect some = money was lost in that program too.=20

Paul=A0

Legacy

On 2011-05-25, at 1:44 PM, Frederick Moreno wrote:

=A0See Thielert's experience.=A0

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S= waid L. Rahn
Indigo Aviation, Inc.
940 Mock Road
Springfield, Ga. = 31329
Cell 912.655.0966

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