On Aug 10, 5:22 pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:
"Brent" wrote in message

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On Aug 9, 1:11 pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:
"woodworker88" wrote in message

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On Aug 9, 9:10 am, "SteveB" wrote:
The P51 engine (if that's what it is) would be almost priceless.
Heads
or
not.

Steve

I would suggest considering donating that particular gem to an
aerospace museum which would be able to restore it and put it on
display. This piece of history deserves to be out where people can
appreciate it.

IIRC, they used two different engines in the P51: Allison V-1710s in the
early ones, and Rolls-Royce Merlins (mostly Packard-built) in the late
ones.

The Merlin was far superior.

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Ed Huntress

Almost every significant British plane in use in europe in WW2 was
using the Merlin

Before i even start to research

the Merlin was used in Spitfires Hurricanes Lancasters Mosquitos
Mustang P51B and later

Its easier to list the places it was not used in europe than list
where it is used

I hope rolls royce still ahve the designs and patterns to an engine
with that much historical significance

Someone here on this NG was making a scale replica a couple or three years
ago. He had the castings made by a sophisticated aluminum casting company in
Canada, IIRC. I wonder how his project ended up?

--
Ed Huntress

If i get good enough as an hsm to look at a project like that and call
it anything less than crazy and impossible i'll consider myself to be
able to do a pretty good job.

in the meantime i might look for old diesels and 1 cylinder engines to
play with before i try digging into a racehorse piston engine like
that. Let alone trying to scale the engine down whilst taking into
account the "unshrinkables"