Please excuse my lack of all things Continental but is there a carburetor fitted version of the IO-360 or is the 0-470 the next model number that isn't fuel injected ??

I know nothing about them but wiki says:

"The engine is available in both normally aspirated, fuel injected IO-360 model and a turbocharged TSIO-360 versions. It is also available in both left and right hand rotation versions for use on twin-engined aircraft.[3]"

There is no version of the IO360 that is carbureted.

So much for my "plug & play" idea !!!!

I am involved with two O-360 projects now on C170Bs. Great way to go for sure... And its "plug and play."

Plug your money in and then you get to play.

whee wrote:There is no version of the IO360 that is carbureted.

I wonder why that is? Its development was probably funded by some specific aircraft type (Hawk XP?) that mandated an injected engine and they never certified it with a carb. Just speculating.

I don't believe there's a factory carbureted version of the IO-240, IO-520 or IO-550.
So maybe at some point the folks at TCM just decided that fuel injection is the way to go. Period.

There is a IO-346, kind of a whacky 4 cylinder version of the O-520.

I wonder if the Conti IO-360 could be converted to carb and certified on a field approval? It would rid the engine of that pesky fuel injection system they have.

I imagine it would be a lot of messing around to get a carb on top of the engine though, for little benefit.

I'm thinking along the lines of The Conti IO-470 that people backdated to a carb on.

= injected.

The beech duchess has O-360s

Of course there is no carbureted IO 360. If so, it’d be an O 360.



MTV

Any chance we are mixing up makes within this conversation, I've never heard tell of a Continental 0-360 only I0-360, but Lycoming yes !!

Mapleflt wrote:Any chance we are mixing up makes within this conversation, I've never heard tell of a Continental 0-360 only I0-360, but Lycoming yes !!

Correct, there is no Continental O-360. Only the IO-360

Brady wrote:I wonder if the Conti IO-360 could be converted to carb and certified on a field approval? It would rid the engine of that pesky fuel injection system they have. …..I'm thinking along the lines of The Conti IO-470 that people backdated to a carb on.

Some people take an O-470 and stick on bigger barrels to have a carburated 520, instead of an IO-520.
The Norland (?) STC converts an IO-470 to a carb, basically just turns it into a high compression O470 from what I can tell.
Other people take an O470 and add after-market fuel injection.
Kinda seems like a "the grass is always greener" thing.

Mapleflt wrote:Any chance we are mixing up makes within this conversation, I've never heard tell of a Continental 0-360 only I0-360, but Lycoming yes !!

Yep. Sorry. I was walking in to work this morning minding my own business and suddenly remembered this thread. I thought. "wait a minute..."

The only Conti 360 I flew behind was in a Mooney 231 (M20K) and it was turbo, and yes "injected"
You had to watch MP carefully on the takeoff