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Why are DBs so expensive to operate?

Posted by Ray Crawford on Mon Mar 11, 2002 01:24:30 AM

In reply top ..the old 'inverted Merlin' question again posted by Tom on Sun Mar 10, 2002 01:36:29 AM


Okay, is the "phenomenal cost of getting a DB running and keeping it that way" due to engine design or simply because of spare parts scarcity?

: We debated over this one a while back but I started thinki
: ng about the likelihood of such a conversion. If it was in
: verted would you need to have scavenge pumps on the rocker
: covers or inside? and would the oil galleries be up to th
: e task of having the oil pushed in the opposite direction
: than when the engine is mounted normally. This stems from
: a conversation I had with someone last week about the phen
: ominal cost of getting a DB running and keeping it that wa
: y. Also is it true that the DB 600 series had oil starvati
: on problems throughout their usage? As for Merlins, seeing
: as the carb intake is about halfway up the rear of the en
: gine does anyone share my thoughts of being able to mount
: an intake a la 109 & 190D and route it up over the superch
: arger and into the intake? Any comments gladly accepted.
:
: Tom ;) (swiftly searching for a 'cheap' Buchon! lol...)

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