Dawn Huntress
Dawn Huntress is a Fairey Huntress 23 whose Perkins T6.354 motor was well past its "sell by" date.
A 220HP motor was built; shipped and installed just in time to attend the Thames Jubilee Pageant in June 2012.
Below video of an early test of this engine during a 'lads' weekend at the workshop.
Here are the test results for Dawn Huntress's engine:-
Temperature: Start ambient 14 C end ambient 15 C
Humidity 58%
Barometric Pressure 1007
Warm up, high idle 2,970 rpm, idle 790 rpm (higher than orginally set??)
A polished stainless umbrella to keep the water off the alternator.
Front view of same.
Just need to remove the broken M5 tap from the casting!