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Even when I don’t write blog stories, activity in the hangar still rolls along. 2018 was Oshkosh number twenty three for me, and I collected a good number of stories that I will share a bit later. The prep work for the event goes on for months, and after it is all over and we pack up and drive home, August is typically a slow month for stories, but the work and parts production, and the prep for the fall events at the Zenith Factory and Barnwell SC still advances.
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Above; A large shipment of CNC mandrel bent stainless tubing for Intakes and Exhaust systems arrives after Oshkosh. You are looking at $5,000 in tubing; It is made in the US, from US material. I get offers from Chinese companies every month to supply this tubing for a small fraction of this cost, but I operate on the assumption that our builders prefer I use the best material rather than the cheapest. I have had the same supplier make these for more than 20 years. It is the same outfit that supplies the OEM parts for Lycoming and Continental. Many of the tubes pictured are already finished product in the hands of builders around the country.
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This week brings more prep work for Corvair College #42 at the Zenith Factory in Mexico MO, September 21-22. I share more information on it over then next few days. The center piece of the event will be the assembly and test run of a complete 2,775 cc Corvair engine with a billet crankshaft, from an SPA “Engine in a Box” complete kit. The engine is not spoken for yet, and if you wish to be its owner, contact us for more information.
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William (904)- 806-8143 or Rachel at SPA, (904)-626-7777
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Further reading:
Info Page,Corvair College #42, at Zenith Aircraft.
2,775 cc Pistons are here.
New 2,775 cc Corvair for a Zenith 601XLB
Pietenpol 2,775 cc Corvair; Trevor Rushton from UK
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