The average car engine uses its higher horsepower for a few mins ,or even seconds, a day and loafs along using about 30 hp if the traffic is moving at about 100 kms an hour.
Push that little sucker along at 75% of its rated output for long periods of time and let us know how it holds up.
There are a lot of things aviation engines should be adopting from automotive, like electronic ignition, fadec, fuel injection etc. but those things are expensive in low numbers and cheaper in high numbers. Aviation is a low numbers game.
The TRACE Beaver is flying.
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Re: The TRACE Beaver is flying.
Yes but in aviation torque is what matters and the new DI with twin turbo technology allows you to get this torque at low rpms
