I say go for it, slap that Subaru in there… I’m sure that your mechanical prowess has made you much more knowledgeable than the other 2 thousand aircraft builders who have tried to convert this baby over. I say this jokingly because I to thought the same thing until I realized that there’s no way of all the people before me, that I was the smartest. Sometimes it’s just better to learn from other peoples mistakes. That being said:::: I had 2 margaritas at dinner. 😳
Mike Sylvester kr2s builder Birmingham,AL. Cell no.205-966-3854 ________________________________ From: KRnet <krnet-boun...@list.krnet.org> on behalf of Arie Post via KRnet <krnet@list.krnet.org> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2022 1:23 PM To: krnet@list.krnet.org <krnet@list.krnet.org> Cc: Arie Post <ariepos...@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: KRnet> Composition of a KR 2 with Subaru EA 81 Hello Randy, I want to come back to this, I know someone who has also installed such a type of engine, not in a KR 2. But it goes perfectly, he did with a reduction case and he changed the engine management. He will be willing to help me too. Do you maybe have any drawings of the engine mount? I want to make the engine mount the same way as Les Palmer. Thanks in advance Kind regards, Arie Post From: Randall Smith via KRnet<mailto:krnet@list.krnet.org> Sent: vrijdag 8 april 2022 21:37 To: krnet@list.krnet.org<mailto:krnet@list.krnet.org> Cc: Randall Smith<mailto:crz...@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: KRnet> Composition of a KR 2 with Subaru EA 81 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
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