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It never ends. But I'm excited to continue our development of parts for the older air cooled engines. Way simpler than the water engine parts.
We have two in house air cooled "early engine case" projects underway at present. Project 24 is the small short stroke engine that is awaiting its crank. Stage one is with the std 2V head and SOHC set up. Depending on the outcome it may get the new head assy. This is going to be interesting. Either another dismal failure or it could turn out to be another avenue for others to follow.
The other is Project 3. Nothing special here. Probably been done before. We have not so its an opportunity to see what can be done. Both projects give us reason to develop new parts and both projects show there is room for continued development.
With more powerful electronics available to all of us now, we have the ability to change how these engines can be operated safely. We chase 1/2 of 1 HP, x 6 cylinders we get 3 HP. I'll take that all day. Incrementally we can gain significant performance. We have found that we do not need 5B oil pressure at high RPM. By controlling the Oil Pressure we can gain torque over the whole RPM range. With these engines we cannot control the pump as in late engines. But we can control the by pass. So far it has shown good gains. An easy task for electronics today. Just about every EFI system sold today has this ability.
Just one of the many things we are looking at.
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