"He said he stopped marketing these because they didn't sell well do to the weight and cost."
Which one are you talking about? According to the Great Plains website, the flywheel drive is the lightest one and the cheapest one. It does have some oddities, however. There's a secondary ignition run off a special oil pump rather than the distributor housing, and several other components are different because the engine is turned around from the normal VW. According to the website, this engine was first used in the bk1.3 single-seater. That design has the cylinders out in the breeze, but the cowling is fairly narrow in front. Here's a 2014 Experimenter article with a closeup of the engine http://experimenter.epubxp.com/i/287214-april-2014/11 The cowling has a huge gap on the underside for cooling, but otherwise it seems fairly tight, and it looks like a KR cowling could be fitted around that engine. The flywheel doesn't look like as much of a problem as the starter (which seems to be sticking way up there). Another possible problem is using a magneto. A year or two ago, I noticed they didn't list a magneto as an accessory, and emailed Steve about it. He confirmed they don't have a way to use one. Of course, that doesn't mean you can't use one, but that you'd have to design your own way to connect it (which is basically what Ken Rand did in the KR plans). Mike Taglieri On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Michael Ladigo via KRnet <krnet at list.krnet.org> wrote: > Ron, > Yes, I spoke with Steve a year or two ago. He said he stopped marketing > these because they didn't sell well do to the weight and cost. I always > thought this was the most trick drive, yet. If you ever decide to part with > yours, I'd be interested. > Mike Ladigo > > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options
