Brodhead Pietenpol Association

I have a Forrest Lovely brass radiator for sale. $1200 plus shipping. Location Fayetteville, AR.
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Interesting. Continental definitely recommends a 3/8 bolt here. On my Piet with the O-200, the engine mount is built to the plans with a 7/16 bolt. The mount is extended 3”. Thinking I’m an idiot who built the airplane wrong, I went to check my Aeronca 11ac with an a65. Also uses a 7/16 bolt. Hmm. B...

Long time lurker here. First trip to Brodhead in 2008, haven't missed a year since. Started building ribs in the 9th grade, took 15 years to finish. My Pietenpol now has 2.7 hours on it, first flight 2/25/24. So far so good. Powered by a fire breathing Continental O-200. Location Fayetteville, Arkan...

Richard, Thanks for the info. The Corben did not come with the engine, it was originally built in the early 1970's and flown with a Chevy Vega engine. The engine was acquired by a man named Hendrix in Iowa from a Piet builder's estate. The plan is to do a recover and use the Ford A. I am currently f...

Update, I found a model A engine, but still know very little about it. Supposedly, a "Brodhead guru" did the conversion 20+ years ago, and it has been stored in Arizona for most of that time before it found its way to Iowa and now Arkansas. It appears to have very little if any run time, t...

Hello good people... Finishing up a continental powered Air Camper and looking towards my next project. I have an older experimental airplane (not a Piet) that needs a Ford model A hanging on the front. Does anyone have a lead on a good used engine, or even a source of info other than the BHP conver...