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Old 20-12-10, 05:23
Richard Coutts-Smith Richard Coutts-Smith is offline
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Bob,
putting a straight 8 B80 into an M37 would have been quite a project!
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Old 20-12-10, 17:42
Bob Carriere Bob Carriere is offline
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Hi Richard

...... in those days you could buy a running M37 for $500 to 800..... I that was expensive for us........ acquiring the RR engine was a pipe dream....

Nonetheless, in those years there was till a lot of good stuff in junk yards around Ottawa...... like the 2 Churchill "Birdgelayers" ...... one of which we managed to get the CWM to purchase..... the second one was cut up for scrap before we could arrange to save it.....

Bunches of Mosquitoes..... all of which had the backbone fuselage crushed by dropping a 1/2 steel plate from a derrick..... nonetheless some exhaust manifolds were salvaged and if memory serves me right shipped out to Autralia for some collector...... cases of 12 cyl complete engines with little clear plastic look a like sparkplugs filled with pink silica gel crystals still inserted in cylinder heads.....

Ah the good old days.....

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