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Join Date: Jun 2006
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Decided to buy a new engine for the Z
Need a trailer to haul it...
 
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Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Ocala, FL
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Re: Decided to buy a new engine for the Z
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Squires (near Ava MO in the Mark Twain N'tl Forest) - Missouri
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Re: Decided to buy a new engine for the Z
LOL!
Gas mileage prolly ... not as good as your LT5. But! You'll be the only one on the block that has one like it! I doubt Pete or Marc will have the quals to work on it....Bob Gillig...maybe! LOL! Last edited by Paul Workman; 09-15-2017 at 10:04 PM. |
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Join Date: Jan 2010
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Re: Decided to buy a new engine for the Z
Might have to modify the front crossmember
to get it to fit? Hope your local gas station carries 115/145 octane av-gas... Last edited by Mystic ZR-1; 09-15-2017 at 10:10 PM. |
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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Re: Decided to buy a new engine for the Z
Lol... I was at the Reno Air Races today, saw this and thought of you guys! I have no idea who made it or how many cylinders it has. Must have been a nightmare to work on and keep running.
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Join Date: Feb 2016
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Re: Decided to buy a new engine for the Z
Exhaust drone? What exhaust drone......you may need a hood scoop.
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Join Date: Sep 2016
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Re: Decided to buy a new engine for the Z
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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Re: Decided to buy a new engine for the Z
From what I have been to google it's a Pratt & Whitney 5600XBSAP that puts out 7000 hp!
"A fun display for the fans was an engine shown behind the Grandstands: the Pratt & Whitney 5600 XBSAP! A fifty-six cylinder radial with eight rows of seven cylinders and displacing 8,720 cubic inches! A massive R-8720 power plant. A lot of people stood around scratching their heads over this one: that is, until they realized it was two R-4360 power sections bolted together! A lot of “experts” and “aviation buffs” were heard to make some interesting rationalizations and statements of “fact” about its history!" 
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Northern VA
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Re: Decided to buy a new engine for the Z
The B29 was powered by the Wright R3350
The further developed Boeing B50 had the Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major
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Re: Decided to buy a new engine for the Z
After further googling the concensus appears to be that it's a mock up. Probably never ran. The biggest and last production radial engines P&W ever produced were the "corncob" 28 cylinder R-4360's. Cooling, fuel economy and the development of the jet engine killed it.
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