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.

Alternator Umbrella
Umbrella

Front view of same.

Just need to remove the broken M5 tap from the casting!