Actually they sold their engine business to Mosler and my understanding is they went bankrupt on the rest of the business. I caught wind of the prototype Cygnet in North Carolina that a bank in Arizona that financed HAPI owned from the forclosure of their business that I could have acquired cheap but at that time Canadian regulations regarding homebuilts from the US made it not feasible. Now I guess Mosler has gone by the wayside too. I bought parts from HAPI and they were terrible to get parts from. I waited for 7 to 8 months and a couple hundred tries on the phone to get them to ship me a cylinder and piston set and was only too happy when Steve Bennett from Great Plains aircraft supply came on the scene as he shipped promptly as he does to the day. I don't think they had a litigation issue I think it was too big for them to handle. Before HAPI guys doing VW engines were on their own. Revmaster was buildingengines but were expensive and there wasn't any easily attained info for us neophytes on how to build an engine until Rex Taylor put out his book " HOW TO BUILD A RELIABLE VW AIRCRAFT ENGINE" By the way type 1 and type 3 engines are principly the same engine, type type 1 engine was configured for the upright fan and the type 3 was configured as a pancake engine.
Louis Staalberg <n...@cbiwireless.com> wrote: Virg wrote:"Is the serial number still on the engine?" Answ.: Yes. I have the following numbers on the case. AS41,22M,V.W logo in circle, 043.101.101A Thanks Virg. Don Chisholm wrote:"HAPI didn't believe in "Stroker V.W.'s" Answ.: That threw me as I did not have a clue what a "Stroker" engine was! However, Google educated me in a hurry.HAPI literature at the time stated that HAPI used only new parts so you are right, he probably bought case and parts and "souped up the engine" It did not come out of a used car! R Eason Sr wrote:"Yours may be a type 3" Thanks Ron for info and commentary. Oldbiker wrote:"Sounds very much like a type 1" Thanks Ray. Albert Cassar wrote:"Best way of telling if it is Tpe 4 is the exhaust on the bottom of the head..." Answ.: I have four individual cylinders.Could be HAPI had them made special. So, can't really tell. Thanks Albert J.Milland wrote:"Type 4 has aluminum cases;Type 1 has magnesium" Answ.: Well, hard for me to tell! Thanks John. Randy Smith wrote:"I met Rex Taylors son and daughter at OSH.." Answ.: Yes I talked to Rex at the time when I heard he had some engine failures and asked if it was applicable to mine and his answer was that mine was a "totally different engine" and the problems were not related to my engine. I believe he tried to come out with an 82 hp "stroker" and tried to make good to people with the failures but went broke.Could also be the law suite. Thanks Randy Well, I will just have to bold on the engine and not worry what type it really is as long as it pulls the KR-2 through the air! Thanks every body. Louis Staalberg Payson, Arizona N9FL"at"cbiwireless.com _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
