Jerry Hey wrote:

Paul,  I am going to build a Kiss Cruiser Schertz Beam engine mount.
Could you determine in your CAD program if the 32.5 inch (overall)
beam
will clear the cowl?  BTW it does clear the Tailwind cowl by 1.5
inches.  Most cowls are more spacious than the TW.   Do you have a
drawing on hand of the Long EZE that you could check for same?   If
it
fits the Kiss and the Long EZE, then it will fit anything.
Thanks,
Jerry

Jerry Hey
j-winddesigns@thegrid.net

I don't have a good 3D model of the Cruiser cowl. Best thing I could
do is

mock

it up with a piece of wood and see if my cowl fits over it. My guess
is it

would fit.

One point. The Schertz beam lowers the position of the rubber
bushings

relative

to the engine compared to the motor plate method so it might get
them down

in

the area of the cowl that starts to curve under the engine. I assume
that

Bill

Schertz's cowl fits over his Schertz beam. In that case it should
fit.

Bill

is that true?

BTW there are two cruiser cowls both Bill Schertz and I have the
early

short ones

as I recall. I think there is a later longer one. Charlie what is the

distance

from firewall to prop flange on your Cruiser cowl? Also Charlie check

these

Cruiser firewall mounting points dimensions carefully. Since Charlie
is

not

that far from you perhaps he can bring his cowl down.

I don't have much on the Long EZE. I'll check.

Paul Lamar

I just called up my drawing, and the center to center distance on the
barry
mounts is 27 inches.

Bill Schertz
KIS Cruiser # 4045

If you need more turbo clearance than that length provides Jerry I
suggest a P51 beam type
mount as in this 3D.

Paul Lamar

Looking at the 3D image,  it looks as if we can make the Schertz Beam
sufficiently narrow to avoid all cowl conflicts.  The turbo would be
above the mount tubes and normal exhaust could be routed outside and
around the motor mount tubes.  Do you agree?   Is there any reason why
we could not adapt this design for all engine mounts?  If we could,
then Ed could design and produce exhaust systems that would fit in
every case.  It would be a MAJOR break through. Paul,  could you look
at this from all angles in Rhino?  (I seem to make this request just
about every day.)      Maybe, within a few hours we will be able to
finally put engine mount and exhaust system design in the DONE file.
    Jerry

Jerry Hey
j-winddesigns@thegrid.net

Yes I obviously agree Jerry :)

Paul Lamar
 
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