As one who flew a Kr-2 with a subaru for 500 hours, my impression was the
same. It looked like the way to go, but I was wrong. When I started out with
the
soob project, an old timer at the airport told me LIQUID COOLED ENGINES ON AN
AIRCRAFT ARE AS PRACTICAL AS SCREEN DOORS ON A SUBMARINE. He was right and I
should have listened to "Smokey" as he flew p-51's in WW2 and other real
interesting aircraft and I flew with him quite a bit in his cessna 120. My soob
blew out the bottom end in 400-450 hours because of the 5000 rpm you had to run
it at to get the tork and HP. Stick with the corvair
Regards,
Steve Makish
