RV 10 Run up with Geared Drives FWF engine package

[2Phast4Rocket]

I predict this airplane will have issues with cooling. You can't just bury the radiator next to the firewall. The hot air has got to exit the engine compartment as quickly as possible in order to efficiently cool the engine. If not this engine will not see sustained high power..

[lindo745]

@2Phast4Rocket Your prediction would be wrong. Geared Drives has taken everything into account with their installations. They do a complete RV-10 firewall forward package.

[2Phast4Rocket]

@lindo745

If this is your video, then best of luck to you. All the videos of the RV with this combination have been showing engine running on the ground with the cowling OFF. I will believe it when I see a video with a Gear Drive FWF package all button up flying at sustained Vmax. I predict the cooling won't be pretty. IT's great to run the motor but when you close up the cowling, man the heat goes up and it got nowhere to go.

[lindo745]

@2Phast4Rocket Instead of pretending you know what you are talking about way not contact Geared Drives and educate yourself. You are wrong on all counts. Just because the videos you see are with the cowling off are the only ones you've seen doesn't mean they are the only GD installations out there. There are quite a few RVs as well as other aircraft flying with this installation with no heat problems. Stop just making it up as you go along

[lindo745]

@2Phast4Rocket And another thing. No cowling is sealed so air can't flow though it and especially cowlings on aircraft with liquid cooled engines. The cowling of the RV has inflow in front and outflow at the bottom under the aircraft (as do all piston aircraft) allowing for more than enough cooling. Where thew hell did you get the idea that the cowling is sealed up??? The radiator is NOT up against the firewall there's plenty of room for air to pass though it. .

[2Phast4Rocket]

@lindo745

I wish you luck. I hate to see a homebuilder spending that much time and money building and get problems in the air. I do not wish that on anyone. As I said, I don't see any RV10 video with GD system with cowling closed up and flying at max airspeed. That is the proof. Any GD brochure information is only that. Just advertisement. Not PROOF.

[lindo745]

@2Phast4Rocket @2Phast4Rocket Why wish me luck? Are you to ignorant as to how You Tube to not no the difference between channels? Your you are woefully ignorant of aircraft and aircraft systems. I told you to contact GD you moron and educate yourself. There are many aircraft flying with this system including RVs. I even think their factory demonstrator is an RV but I could be wrong. It IS a 2 seat side by side light aircraft in teh same class as the RV.

[lindo745]

@2Phast4Rocket One last thing are you related to Paul Lamer? You sure talk like him. He saw pretty stupid as well.

[2Phast4Rocket]

@lindo745 I don't know who he is. It is very interesting for someone like you who isn't involved in anyway to the RV10 in this video or GD but argued so vociferously on the efficacy of the GD system. So have a nice life.

[devildrummerjack]

Nice plane. I wonder if anyone is as confused as I am. Ive been thinking if the LAA/PFA say the aircraft is safe to fly then why isnt it safe to use as a commercial plane as there is no difference?

[Dominoes282]

Did you install the alternators in this yet? Its a NICE sounding engine though, amazing job.

[TheTui21]

Hi, why did you put a clutch in the drive? Wouldn't it be lighter without, and use the prop as a flywheel?

[hainesy86]

whats the status of this airplane? Is it up and flying yet? been a while since these videos were taken so just wondering how this airplane turned out.

[cobrala]

@hainesy86 Dont ask....

[youngestpilotinGa]

ummm clear prop maybe ?

[blazerluver]

Just slap some cherry bombs or some flowmasters on It and ull be good. Haha. The plane sounds nice. Love it!!! What motor??

[f82man]

This is awesome, will be using two of these PSRUs behind two Viper V-10s for a twin project in the future. Keep up the good work!! Don

[jacobneider]

What rpm do you cruise at and what is the gph?

[Mastercorder]

A novel idea but I,am certain at high altitudes in thinner air that engine would most certainly over heat it does sound good how ever you would have to place the radiator underneath the airplane like a p - 51 or something to be safe then the hosing and tubing would be a nightmare you would have a good defrost and heater though I,ed stick with Ly coming or Continental though many hours flown and safe that engine their would have to run at red line and you better run 30/50 weight oil ..

[jdhiner1]

What do you think this engine has to put up with in a car especially a corvette?

[SeafangXVI]

the same rules apply, cooling a lycoming or a auto conversion. you have to go a LONG way up before reduced cooling is a problem. the car industry tests their motors in much harsher ways than lycoming or continental AND if you think either of those brands is reliable you have obviously never worked in the industry!

as long as the ducting is good ( an thats the challenge ) the engine will cool tghe P-51 layout would offer the same cooling but at a lower overall drag.

[geareddrives]

Cooled by air and water, the radiator is located parallel with the firewall behind the engine.

[JeanPernicia]

¿How do you deal with engine cooling? the airplane engines are colled by air and this chevy is watercooled, so ¿where the radiator is?

[contactmag]

Smoooooooth!