"Flying a plane is no different from riding a bicycle. It's just a lot
harder to put baseball cards in the spokes." Capt. Rex Kramer from the
movie "Airplane."
Fuel Injection now
available on Hirth aircraft engines:
Matt Dandar of Recreational Power was at Sun N Fun again this year
with the full line of Hirth engines. If you are a member of some of the
"newsgroups" or "list" members you will have noticed over the years
that Hirth has come under a great deal of criticism. BUT if you look closely you will find
that this "negativity" is coming from several years back, when the sales,
service, parts and distribution of the Hirth line of engine was handled by a Canadian
company.
Matt Dandar, the current distributor, who is based in the U.S. has been working hard over
the last several years to change this "negativity." One of his first
"positive" steps was to aid manufacturers who had paid for, or put deposits down
on engines that were lost when the Canadian Hirth distributor closed it's doors.
Matt nor Hirth had any legal or financial obligation to refund money - but Matt
acting on his own arranged with Hirth a set up which allowed manufacturers to recoup their
lost monies.
According to industry sources Matt has also been responsible for many of the changes in
engine design, and warranty. One unique thing about the one year warranty on Hirth engines
is that it not only covers parts and labour but warranties against all piston seizures -
except for the lack of oil, and the engine crankshafts are prorated under warranty for
three years. These "positive" changes are allowing Hirth to slowly chew away at
their major competitor Rotax.
This year Hirth introduced fuel injection as an option on two of their engines the 65 hp
twin cylinder engine and their 4 cylinder 115 hp model. I had an opportunity to talk to
the people from CGS Hawk who were flying on the two cylinder engine at the show, and they
were impressed with
the setup, and reported that performance was definitely enhanced over the carbureted
model.
The only problem that they encountered was at speeds over 80 mph the engine started to
miss slightly. This was traced to the positioning of the input modules. Once the location
was changed the problem disappeared.
For more
information on the Hirth line of engines contact:
Recreational Power
5479 E. Co. Rd. 38, Tiffin,
Ohio 44883
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