Russ in Colorado

[Rbell]

Got a set of four place plans, never started. Thinking about Patrol or Patrol LSA. I own a V-6Stol. Like it, but it lands as hot as a heavy Pacer.

[nichzimmerman]

Welcome. Can you comment on the performance and reliability of the V6 STOL? I recall Blanton made some forceful arguments. Was it as advertised? Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk

[Rbell]

The original owner/builder had some teething trouble with that engine. He eventually got the correct harmonic balancer and etc., and smoothed it out. It now runs nicely and I haven't had any issues at all. Dual ignition pickups, both routed through the Ford distributor to single spark plugs. Silicon hoses. Claimed 230 hp. I'd guess 180. (of course I'm at nearly 5000msl) The reduction is also trouble free. Lots of decibels. 4300 rpm and straight pipes will wake up the cows. Mighty good air brake. When you pull your throttle back to idle your prop is spinning about 400 rpm. Took some getting used to. You want a 1500 fpm descent, I can set that up. I do like it, but it's unique. May some day put a set of super cub wings on it.

[fixnflyr]

I had a Blanton Javlin conversion on a RV-6A kit I bought. The Airplane was supposed to be ready to fly and taxi tested. I mainly bought it to resell. I sold the engine separately and never ran it. I can not speak for it's reliability or performance but I can about it's weight. That thing was super heavy. I mounted on a wooden pallet still on its engine mount. I built a small plywood box out of thin plywood to put the prop in. The prop was a 3 blade Ivo magnum with a spinner. There was the aluminum radiator, prop belt drive, hoses, engine mount, and all the other stuff firewall fwd, no cowling. I wrapped it all in plastic wrap. I put it on my certified digital aircraft scales for shipping and it weighed 602 pounds including pallet. I don't see where I could have had over 100 pounds in the shipping palette and boxes. That would make the firewall fwd power plant somewhere around 500 pounds without fluids.
I felt it was too heavy for a RV-6A. I am sure it could have had some weight trimmed a bit off of the brackets and such but it was heavy.