Pietenpol-List: Subaru - Alternative engines
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2001 9:35 am
Original Posted By: "Rodger & Betty Childs"
Alan,Sorry I have taken so long to reply to your request about a Subaruengine as used in your friend's Pietenpol.Duane Woolsey in Utah built a beautiful Piet and used an EA81 Subaruengine with excellent results. You might contact him atdlwoolsey(at)home.com .I am just finishing up a Piet with an EA82 turbocharged and injectedengine and hope to have a good performing machine. My calculationsindicate a rate of climb at this altitude (7200 ft) of over 1200 fpm. The engine is rated in the car at 111 hp at only 4800 rpm here in theU.S. In Japan they turn the engine at 5500 to develop 135 hp. I made abelt drive prop reduction unit which reduces the engine rpm at 2.35:1.I will be anxious to hear about how your friend's Piet performs andespecially the size prop he is using, diameter, pitch and chord inparticular.Contact Duane, he is really the expert with Subaru engines.John________________________________________________________________________________
Alan,Sorry I have taken so long to reply to your request about a Subaruengine as used in your friend's Pietenpol.Duane Woolsey in Utah built a beautiful Piet and used an EA81 Subaruengine with excellent results. You might contact him atdlwoolsey(at)home.com .I am just finishing up a Piet with an EA82 turbocharged and injectedengine and hope to have a good performing machine. My calculationsindicate a rate of climb at this altitude (7200 ft) of over 1200 fpm. The engine is rated in the car at 111 hp at only 4800 rpm here in theU.S. In Japan they turn the engine at 5500 to develop 135 hp. I made abelt drive prop reduction unit which reduces the engine rpm at 2.35:1.I will be anxious to hear about how your friend's Piet performs andespecially the size prop he is using, diameter, pitch and chord inparticular.Contact Duane, he is really the expert with Subaru engines.John________________________________________________________________________________