Trent 900 not reliable enough; I'll stick with the wasserboxer.

Karl Wolz

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
|Scott Daniel - Turbovans
|Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 10:12 PM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: no vanagon content - nice aeroplane spotted
|
|consider that the Rolls Royce  Trent 900 is bigger than a vanagon ..
|might be a pretty tricky engine conversion.
|
|converting to another type of fuel isn't hard though.
|The size of the tank needed though ...that would have to be on a very large
|trailer towed behind.
|
|
|----- Original Message -----
|From: "Al Knoll" <anasasi@GMAIL.COM>
|To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
|Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 6:00 PM
|Subject: Re: no vanagon content - nice aeroplane spotted
|
|
|> er ah, there's a few fuel issues with care and feeding of such exotica.
|>
|> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:48 PM, BenT Syncro <syncro@gmail.com> wrote:
|>
|>> Heck with stuffing a Merlin in a Vanagon. How about a Trent 900. There
|>> might be a bunch coming up on the used A380 engine market.;-)
|>>
|>>
|>> BenT