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Offline Perdu

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Re: Not LM but.................
« Reply #15 on: June 20, 2008, 11:19:54 pm »
They were a wonderful engine, the Centaurus, but honestly I think he will have a devil  >:D of a job with the collector rings....


How many of you can tell I'm jealous that he has one to play with then?  :'(

The big problem is the air racing lads will have scoured the desert looking for Centaurus bits, I think they were the most powerful piston engine ever put in a single seater fighter weren't they (F.S?) and racing Sea Furies are amongst the best there have been.
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Re: Not LM but.................
« Reply #16 on: June 21, 2008, 12:38:23 am »
EMSWORTH.....

Blomin eck.

Where's his workshop. I'd be interested in a nose.. Crime prevention advise and all that... or just community work stuff.....

Thats really going to piss the neighbours off when it gets going.
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Re: Not LM but.................
« Reply #17 on: June 21, 2008, 10:41:36 pm »
Quote from: The Brethren on June 20, 2008, 02:34:56 am
That puts Rex's air raid siren to shame.
Gauntlet laid... Next year we need a plane engine on a stand, or a jet powered Cavalier!
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Re: Not LM but.................
« Reply #18 on: June 21, 2008, 11:06:46 pm »
Quote from: Lord Pig-Pen on June 21, 2008, 10:41:36 pm
Quote from: The Brethren on June 20, 2008, 02:34:56 am
That puts Rex's air raid siren to shame.
Gauntlet laid... Next year we need a plane engine on a stand, or a jet powered Cavalier!

Fling a turbo on it. The compression's low enough for the valves not to trouble the pistons.

There is a way to turn a scrap turbo into an even more scrap turbo by turning it into a jet engine of sorts. IIRC much propane required (But my Sodium Chlorate experiments at the beginning of the weekend indicates my amateur status, both as a chemist and an engineer.)

That's one hell of a rebuild project. I'll bet he spends a LOT of time on ebay. And avoiding his wife.
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