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Ken's article nudged me to check in again over at ramengines.com. Anyone
know of any experiences with their products? Looks and reads pretty good,
although easy to wonder if they're trying to squeeze too much out of an
EA-81. My own personal counter to that is that the Sube engines themselves
are extremely robust and the devil is just in the details.
-Ben



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I ran the Sube EJ-22 on my Rebel for about 200 hours and am now converting
to a Lyc 0-320 (for a lot of different reasons the least of which was the
reliability of the Sube engine itself). That being said, I have spent a lot of
time on the Sube yahoo chat groups and everything I read about Ram
engines has been positive up until a friend of mine had the EA-81 on his Kitfox
rebuilt by RAM. He now has a total of about 3 hours on a total of 3 rebuilds.
Something is fundamentally wrong with his engine now and his issues start
with the rebuild done by RAM (they forgot to torque the heads which resulted
in overheating/blown head gaskets).

I've never dealt with RAM so I don't have any personal experience but I do
think there is a point at which they are trying to get too much HP out of the
EA-81.

James Smith

On 1/30/2008 8:09 AM, bransom wrote to rebel-builders:

-> Ken's article nudged me to check in again over at ramengines.com. Anyone
-> know of any experiences with their products? Looks and reads pretty
good,
-> although easy to wonder if they're trying to squeeze too much out of an
-> EA-81. My own personal counter to that is that the Sube engines
themselves
-> are extremely robust and the devil is just in the details.
-> -Ben




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