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Originally posted by svandamme
Tim , is that some kind of optical illusion or something?
the engine looks to be standing upright, yet attached to the plane ?
but that wouldn't make sense now would it
just looks plain weird
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The engine is mounted "upright" on a stand that I use for engine assembly. The (6) cylinders I just removed are what are lying on the floor in the foreground. On most small airplanes the cylinders can be removed while the engine is still in the plane, but this T-34 has a larger STC'd IO-520 in it and had to be removed in order to pull the cylinders. My customer wanted new cylinders until he found out that they would cost $9000, so we are getting his original first-run cylinders reworked for about 2-3K. This aircraft costs him about 4 times what a Cessna 172 would cost him to maintain. If you want to play, you gotta pay!  
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