Until he popped up with my name I wasn't gonna say anything. I would not waste my time with that Subaru. Les had a total of about an 4 1/2 hours on his KR I had about 60 hours on it. He had troubles with a reddrive it could never produce the horsepower it says it's supposed to produce. the radiator takes up a lot of space so there's a lot of drag through the cowing. it's heavy once you add everything up including the water. I sold it to a guy down south of Waco I believe somewhere around Georgetown and I know he had a problem an the engine quit and he put it in a pasture I don't know what happened to it after that. Les was a Tinker and he was really good at it. But he could never get that thing to perform like it was supposed to. I would fly it for an hour or two and he'd work on it for a week or two. I flew it to one or two flyings. and I believe he trailered it to two of them.
Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 8, 2022, at 10:34 AM, Mark Langford <m...@n56ml.com> wrote: > > Arie Post wrote: > > > I did come across another article on the site by Les Palmer. > > He also has an EA 81 sitting in front of his KR 2 there. > > He seems to have flown with it. > > What about him, is he still flying it? > > Could I possibly receive his email address? > > I also came across an article by Ken Thomas. > > He is flying a Subaru EA 82 there, what about him? > > Ken removed the Subaru and installed a Jabiru. I don't know the details of > why, but it's not uncommon. My thought when it had a Subaru in it was that > it looked like it had a filing cabinet or a small refrigerator under the > cowling! The water cooling system takes a lot of space. Ken is long gone, > but I saw his airplane in a photo of what I believe was an Alabama hangar > that had been hit by a tornado. I'll leave the Les Palmer KR to Randy, who > has flown it, and is likely still on KRnet. > > Steve Makish and Bob Lester both built planes with Subarus, and later swapped > them out with Corvairs. Their advice was that the Subarus would pound out > the crankshaft bores (like VWs do after many years using the stock > crankshaft). Corvairs don't have that problem, although I realize that > Corvair engines are not widely available outside of the US. > > Mark Langford > m...@n56ml.com > http://www.n56ml.com > Huntsville, AL > > -- > KRnet mailing list > KRnet@list.krnet.org > https://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet -- KRnet mailing list KRnet@list.krnet.org https://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet
