And above all, "200" is a faaaaaar nicer answer when your passenger asks about horsepower

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Yup, no free lunch... if we use the extra 30 horsepower to achieve a higher speed, we will spend more energy per mile in fighting drag, so range will decrease - and that's without factoring in a poorly designed cooling system (which we dont want to even consider in the first placeGraham wrote:One potential issue with a larger engine is the range impact. My quick back of a napkin calculations are a 7kt increase in speed with a 20% increase in fuel burn would result in a lower range for the DA40 with 50 gal tanks. I seems that the MPG would decrease. The cooling drag impact would also factor into this but I thought I would throw this into the mix.
I would like the extra performance kick so I am interested in how this works out. The turbo option might have been good option but I heard somewhere the IO-360 wouldn't handle the turbo well, although I don't recall why.
Antoine wrote:Great! I have just recently tried to find some good nano coating as a way to retard icing. was not successful... lets see what comes out.
I think in our operating speeds the drag benefit versus a good wax would be negligible though.