Complete ECI engines

[Tom-D]

http://www.eci.aero/pdf/Engine-Assembly-Program-Titan-Engines.pdf

 

[bluerooster]

Cool.
How do their prices compare with the other certified engines? And I guess they'll need an STC?

 

[weilke]

Is that good or bad

 

[bluerooster]

should be at least as good as their cylinders.

 

[Tom-D]

Cool.
How do their prices compare with the other certified engines? And I guess they'll need an STC?

Why would they need an STC?

 

[bluerooster]

Well the TCDS for say, a Cherokee 180 makes no mention of an ECI engine? So installing one would be a deviation from the TC. Yes it's an ECI 360 cubic inch horizontal opposed engine. But it's not a Lycoming O360xxx.

Mabe that's why? I dunno, that's why I asked.

 

[JHW]

Well the TCDS for say, a Cherokee 180 makes no mention of an ECI engine? So installing one would be a deviation from the TC. Yes it's an ECI 360 cubic inch horizontal opposed engine. But it's not a Lycoming O360xxx.

Mabe that's why? I dunno, that's why I asked.

does the TCDS make mention of rapco brake pads ?

 

[kgruber]

Well the TCDS for say, a Cherokee 180 makes no mention of an ECI engine? So installing one would be a deviation from the TC. Yes it's an ECI 360 cubic inch horizontal opposed engine. But it's not a Lycoming O360xxx.

Mabe that's why? I dunno, that's why I asked.

They have PMA for those engines, which means you can install them just like an original Lycoming.

 

[Tom-D]

They have PMA for those engines, which means you can install them just like an original Lycoming.

It is a Lycoming design, I don't know how the copy rites work on ECI using that design.

But yes it is legal to install a ECI engine in any aircraft that calls for a Lycoming of type.

 

[kgruber]

The patents are probably long expired.

 

[bluerooster]

does the TCDS make mention of rapco brake pads ?

Makes no mention of any brake pads.

 

[kgruber]

does the TCDS make mention of rapco brake pads ?

You can be sure Rapco has FAA-PMA on its brake parts.

http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/lgpages/rapco_brklinig2.php

 

[JHW]

You can be sure Rapco has FAA-PMA on its brake parts.

Bingo. So why the crusade against engines? An engine is just another part.

 

[Henning]

Bingo. So why the crusade against engines? An engine is just another part.

No problem as long as they have a PMA. These engines have been available for years for experimentals but NOT certified aircraft, so I imagine they have managed some kind of paper work compliance.

 

[timwinters]

Bingo. So why the crusade against engines? An engine is just another part.

I don't think it was a crusade, rather just an honest question by someone wanting to learn.

 

[bluerooster]

I don't think it was a crusade, rather just an honest question by someone wanting to learn.

Yup. Dassitt.

Tom, an' Kgruber, both answered satisfactorily.