Mike Wills wrote:

At 12:13 PM 8/5/1999 -0700, you wrote:

BTW Power Sport at OSH was showing 210 HP at about 5850 RPM with Everett
Hatch's peripheral port configuration plus EFI and a little radiused lip
added
to the end of the 24 inch long intake pipes.

The picture shows the new Power Sport engine on their test stand/dyno
at OSH. The peripheral ports and long intake pipes can be clearly
seen.

Paul Lamar

Paul,

 This looks great! Light, compact, powerful, and simple. Do you have other
pictures; what does the other side (plenum side) of the intake look like?
Did they come up with a different ignition system or are they still using
the old electronic/distributor based system that Everett had on his
airplane? IMHO this is the config that we should be aiming for in an n.a.
rotary.

Mike Wills

This is the plug side. The ignition is coil-on-plug with
four coils of course. You also get a moving map and EFIS on
a high brightness LCD when you buy the firewall forward package.

powspor2.jpg

The test stand is the same idea as on the ACRE NL except they used
a load cell instead of a bathroom scale.

The rad on the left is the oil cooler. The water rad is much larger
and hidden in this picture.

BTW there is some internal debate within Power Sport on whether
they sell the PSRU separate from the firewall forward package.
If you are interested in buying just the PSRU drop an email line
to:

"Ray Richardson Jr." <ratech@earthlink.net

Paul Lamar
 
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