Wow, Todd. That's too cool. What a labor of love. Turned out awesome.Just a fun side post. What other things have you seen that were powered by a Honda??
This is powered by a Honda V45 motorcycle engine. Read the sign for all the details!
RH Collier was my father.
ToddC
Thanks for reading....my dad was very patient. He had a 1980 Goldwing that made the cover of the GW Road Riders monthly mag. also.
Oh no, John Ziemba Restorations was a UK based company.
Looks like entire block with prop gear box attached:
Just like using a Subara engine on your plane, Honda never certified this as an aircraft engine. So if a failure, don't look to them for any law-suit insurance claims.
Is it possible they converted it over to a dry sump system, that would be my guess.
Many small, single engine GA aircraft are powered by wet sump engines - I'm talking about non aerobatic Cessnas, etc. These planes typically will have carburetors - which, along with a wet sump don't perform all that well when inverted. While I don't know a whole lot about the design of airplanes' wet sumps, it would be easy to deal with most attitudes of non aerobatic flight by designing a deep sump with baffles, and perhaps a flexible pick-up tube (aka flop tube). The Cessna I learned in had a conventional dip stick, and I assumed, a wet sump. Believe me, I was more afraid of inverted flight than the engine was.....
