My buddy was an A/P also, he's the one who taught me that generally almost
all airplane engines (piston) have twice as much torque as horsepower. The
Lycoming O-360-A1B6 is rated at 200 HP at 28in man pres., it's torque output
is almost twice that amount (395 tq). They typically never publish torque
figures for airplane engines, so I asked an A/P what it was.
Mark Kuzia
flyboy01@mediaone.net
http://people.mw.mediaone.net/flyboy01/home.html
1995 Dakota 13.79 @ 102.45 mph
360ci, 5-spd, 4.11 LS(8 3/4 coming soon), Cowl-induction
(A new E-body 8 3/4 [3.90 SG] has been built by Reider Racing)
----- Original Message -----
From: "The Man From Utopia" <tmfu@home.com>
To: <dakota-truck@BUFFNET.NET>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 3:23 PM
Subject: RE: DML: Merlin correction...
>
>
> >
> > I believe you are very wrong on that one! Why else would 4cyl
> > 360ci engines
> > be built! My experience is that they ARE designed to have a
> > lot of torque,
> > after all most piston engine airplanes run in a 500 to 600
> > rpm operating
> > range and max out at 2500 to 2600 rpms! Just ask any pilot (me).
> >
>
> I would never ask a pilot that! ;-) Actually my authority on the subject
is
> an Airframe/Powerplant mechanic so he could be wrong...
>
> Greg
> NE# 3779
> 2K1 Neon ES
> Rahway NJ
> ICQ: 283886
> http://24.6.89.18/neon
>
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