uhh, a Turboshaft T58 is a 447 pound aircooled engine, with 1680 SHP.(topping power)

The post was referring to the Allison engine, not your turboshaft one.

--DD

Jake - I think you'd need to up the size of the fuel tank on the 914...

1680 hp = SUCCKKKKKKK!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

17 gallons would be gone in virtually no time.

I'd prefer one of the Turbomach little baby APUs. Only about 250 hp, but they fit under your arm and you could carry it with one hand. I keep trying to get my sister to bring one home with her but....

James

Oh shucks, it's just an Allison.. I thought it was gonna be a Merlin..

:-(

After WWII, people used to make racers out of P-38 drop tanks, and a few of those had Merlins, and that is some serious tor-K-...

You Cali guys have to have seen some of this stuff around?

Mike, you can buy a whole P-51 for a million bucks, then swap engines, and sell the plane to a guy who needs the T-IV for a 356 conversion.

:)

M

Ah yes, the Double Wasp, which also powered my favorite plane of WW2... the F4U Corsair. I guess growing up watching "Black Sheep Squadron" had something to do with that.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads/f4u-7[1].gif

:eek:

I guess with this opel its not miles per gallon,rather gallons per mile lol. this guy musta had a lot of time on his hands.

M,
The median cost for an Allison equped P-51(from what I have seen) is 1.2 million. But, I was thinking of the Merlin engine equiped ones that I saw at the Reno air races when I was in a military display there. I remember thinking that I could one day own a vintage fighter......till I asked about the price. The price to fix anything wrong with that engine would be huge.
I think that I would have to go with a Lycoming (or my corvair conversion) ;)