Nowhere better to use a big-block!
 

The rocker cover look familiar in these pictures? To me, this is the best of both worlds; sexy and fast!

Of course, nothing can beat the real deal, the Rolls Royce Merlin.

Several years ago at EAA there was a builder up there that took a aluminum BBC and flipped it upside down. Pretty neat stuff!

I saw one of those in a 3/4-scale BF-109 (quite often called and ME-109), which in the full-scale aircraft had a Daimler-Benz inverted V-12.

Dave-
I am very surprised that a purist such as yourself would accept (although they are beloved to you) a big block in a Mustang!:crazy:
I thought I had you pretty well read by now; Only a dripping oil everywhere, backfiring, snorting, liquid locking radial would be acceptable or would even catch your attention!;) :p I guess you'd be alright with it if I shoe-horned a hair dryer into that thing? Yeah right.:D

Here's one for you my friend- hope all the injuries and surgeries are healing well.......:)
Jim

As you are aware Piper Aircraft made a turbine variant of the Mustang called the Enforcer, And yes, that would be about as good as it gets from a maintenance standpoint. I'm sure you agree. And yes, I'd fly the daylights out of one if I had the chance.

:D

http://avanimation.avsupport.com/sound/P-51.wav

Didn't "Ryan Faulkner" (sp) out of Salinas, CA make an aluminum V12, based off the small block Chevy, for use in the P51 replica's?

I remember seeing one at the Reno Air Races with his engines in one.

They were going to make a "Marine Version" but it never happened.

my buddy in Orlando is building a 3/4 mustang. It will have a 502 - all aluminum and a pro-charger on it.

FALCONER

here is a plane i completed for somone took about 2 years to fair out and paint . has a continnential twin turbo- 350 hp will do 300 knots . pressurized and could fly at 28 thousand feet. lancair 4. bad ass plane.

In CB where I used to live, they had a local Confed Airforce wing. A sweet P-51 called Gunfighter called it home. When I was taking flying lessons Duncan Aviation was doing part of the restoration of the only b-29 still flying. I went out the day it flew home and it was a sweet sight.

Yes, Gen. (ret) Reg Urschler flies "Gunfighter" and does a wonderful job of it too.

Dave,
Photo #1 is a good friend of mine and Paul's. Dan was down with West Nile 2 years ago he is still in recovery.
He loves his planes. Don't know if he will ever fly again

Mark

Stupid question, but how does an auto motor work in planes? Is the lubrication pressurized?

Wet sump oil systems are the norm for most aircraft. Lots of aircraft approved for aerobatics have wet sumps. If you're going to do negative G aerobatic work the aircraft would be equipped with inverted oil and fuel systems, meaning these systems will work under positive or negative G loading.
An aircraft in unaccelerated straight and level flight has a G load of 1 G, the same as it has sitting on the ground.

Cool Stuff!!!

A Falconer in a thunder Mustang

A long time ago I used to do a lot of aircraft sheet metal and rebuilding work. Although I never did much work on the Stangs, I did quite a bit of work on the Hawker Sea Fury. These British carrier-based aircraft were introduced at the very end of WWII, and were used in Korea. They fell out of favor rapidly with the coming of the jet fighter, but were still an incredible performer.
They used radial sleeve-valve Bristol Centarus 18 engine-
18 cylinders (two rows of 9)
3270 CID (53.6 liters)
2485 horsepower (or 3220 @2800 RPM with water/methanol injection)
dry weight 2695 lbs.
I did quite a bit of work on these engines as well- there is no engine with more thrashing going on internally than one of these. Check out the link for some pics of this behemoth. No valves, no tappets, no pushrods, no springs...........
If you REALLY need to know how this works, I will try to explain in a different post.

http://www.enginehistory.org/buckel_galleries.htm

:eek:

Tim, got more pictures of those planes and engines?? If so, let's see them. Love WWII vintage planes and engines.

Here is one for someone into aircraft with a few bucks to spare Big Radial Engine

This is a side shot of the Hawker Sea Fury in the above picture. To my knowledge, this and one other are the only flying two-place Sea Fury trainers in existence. I had helped restore one, but it and several single-place, along with a ton of spares and engines, burned in a fire lit by a disgruntled employee. The owner of these planes had purchased them and the spares from Iraq, who had bought 60 of them new from the Brits. These planes were fast- 435 mph+, and they carried 4 20mm
canons in the wings, as well as rockets and 1000# bombs under.

Many of these aircraft (single place versions) were converted to the Pratt & Whitney R-4360 engine for racing in Reno. I had the misfortune of turning a wrench or two on these as well. Several F-8F Bearcats and Super Corsairs were converted to this monster too. Specs:
28 cylinders (four rows of 7)
Turbo-compound supercharged
4360 CID
3500HP @2700 RPM
3404 pounds

Foul- The pic on the first link is from Kalamazoo Museum, just down the road from you........

http://www.skytamer.com/engines/20010522-202.htm

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/engines/eng34a.htm

The Allison is still in use in the Unlimited Class Hyroplanes and beat the crap out of many a turbine boat on the circuit last year.....
This pic is an aircraft version as used in the Spitfire fighter aircraft.
You think you've heard power in some supercharged
V-8 engine? These V-12's sing a different tune.......

Although not used as much in offshore and Unlimited Hydro racing, the Rolls Royce Merlin was an incrediblly powerful V-12, and was the powerplant used in the P-51
They have a very unique sound!:cool: