Bob Glidden wrote: >>From what the guy's at the Teledyne tent told us at Oshkosh last year,the > new 0-200 is not available to the general public.They were going to be > sold to LSA distributors only.Now that was last year and Mark L could find > out,but why spend the time you are more then likely looking at $18000 > bottom > line.That is a lot of money for a KR engine.....
Yes, true for the "LSA" version of the 0-200, although I think maybe it'll be more expensive that that. What I was talking about was the plain Jane certified 0-200 that most of us have flown behind in C-150's and the like. I'm pretty sure anybody with a fat enough wallet can buy one of those. I didn't realize it until I asked their chief engineer last year, but it is still in production...you can buy a brand new one right now for something like $24k (don't quote me on that). Up until then, I thought the 0-200 was out of production, and had been for years, but he set me straight on that, and I verified it with one of the sales folks at OSH last year. Still, like Bob says, you could rebuild about 8 Corvair engines for that kind of money. It's a judgement call. Reliabliity of the 0-200 is pretty much undisputed, I'd have to mention, whereas the Corvair is still proving itself, I'll be the first to admit. If you've got $24k to spend on an engine, you'd probably be building something besides a KR... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
