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Hirth aircraft engines now available with fuel injection.

Fuel Injection now available on Hirth aircraft engines:

Matt Dandar of Recreational Power was at Sun N Fun again this year with the full line of Hirth engines. If you are a member of some of the "newsgroups" or "list" members you will have noticed over the years that Hirth has come under a great deal of criticism. BUT if you look closely you will find that this "negativity" is coming from several years back, when the sales, service, parts and distribution of the Hirth line of engine was handled by a Canadian company.

Matt Dandar, the current distributor, who is based in the U.S. has been working hard over the last several years to change this "negativity." One of his first "positive" steps was to aid manufacturers who had paid for, or put deposits down on engines that were lost when the Canadian Hirth distributor  closed it's doors.
Matt  nor Hirth had any legal or financial obligation to refund money - but Matt acting on his own arranged with Hirth a set up which allowed manufacturers to recoup their lost monies.

According to industry sources Matt has also been responsible for many of the changes in engine design, and warranty. One unique thing about the one year warranty on Hirth engines is that it not only covers parts and labour but warranties against all piston seizures - except for the lack of oil, and the engine crankshafts are prorated under warranty for three years. These "positive" changes are allowing Hirth to slowly chew away at their major competitor Rotax.

This year Hirth introduced fuel injection as an option on two of their engines the 65 hp twin cylinder engine and their 4 cylinder 115 hp model. I had an opportunity to talk to the people from CGS Hawk who were flying on the two cylinder engine at the show, and they were impressed with the setup, and reported that performance was definitely enhanced over the carbureted model.
The only problem that they encountered was at speeds over 80 mph the engine started to miss slightly. This was traced to the positioning of the input modules. Once the location was changed the problem disappeared.

For more information on the Hirth line of engines contact:
Recreational Power
5479 E. Co. Rd. 38, Tiffin,
Ohio 44883

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