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The Cessna  C182 is one of the best certified light planes in the world.
It will lift everything you can stuff in it and fly
1100 mile range with 90 gallons of gas. It can land  or crash at less than 60 MPH which
makes it very safe. Low fatality rate on accidents.

It has been sitting for awhile with the re-manufactured 2000 TBO
Continental new engine with only 50 hours on it.
The old 1500 hour engine crankshaft had a mass of
cracks. It could have failed at any moment. The new engine
is 2000 hour TBO with double counter weights on the crankshaft.
I would average only about 500 hours on an exhaust valve and then
I would have to replace it.

The previous engine only had one counter weight. Nobody
has ever cracked a Mazda rotary e-shaft no matter what.
The Mazda rotary has the same .47 BSFC as the O-470 230 HP
six cylinder engine in the C182. The Continental engine weighs about 450 pounds.

The Mazda with cast iron end housings is about 325 pounds fire wall forward.

I am hooking up a an electric pre-oiler to the main oil gallery and inspecting the cylinder walls
with a camera that fits in a spark plug hole. The walls are in fine shape.

You have to take good care of these things as a new one is $30,000 and up.

Paul Lamar


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