#SR22 CIRRUS INTERIOR UPGRADE#

Continental just doesn’t have a trade name for it. Moreover, it also features balanced fuel injection. It’s also covered by a Teledyne Continental factory warranty. The lower compression means the -K model has slightly less efficient specific fuel consumption, but it also means it has better detonation margins. The new engine is a lower compression engine, 7.5:1 versus 8.5:1 for the Tornado Alley product.

Tornado Alley also added its patented GAMIjectors to even out fuel flow and balance cylinder temperatures. The previous engine, the IO-550-N, was converted by Tornado Alley Turbo from a naturally aspirated engine to a turbo. The new dash number is unique to Cirrus, at least for the time being. Cirrus will continue to offer the Tornado Alley engine, so customers will be able to select the engine option that best suits their needs or tastes. The new engine, the Teledyne Continental TSIO-550-K, provides several very noteworthy quality-of-life, longevity and performance advantages over the Tornado Alley turbo-normalized engine and does it for the same price.

#SR22 CIRRUS INTERIOR UPGRADE#

While largely invisible to the naked eye, the latest improvement, the upgrade to a Continental factory turbocharged engine, is also a big deal. Most of that improvement has been incremental, with a few big exceptions, including the upgrade to the G3 model a few years back and the concurrent offering of the Turbo model, as well as the introduction of the Entegra and Perspective flight decks. Based on my experience in the airplane, I feel confident in saying that a new SR22 is a substantially better airplane in nearly every respect than the original. I was the first journalist to fly the original SR22, and I’ve flown every new one since, some of them for several hundred hours.

And I mean “mature” in the good way, you know, like expensive wine, fine Swiss watches and very fast airplanes, like the Cirrus SR22. The hope is that, as a product develops, it will mature.

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