Dan wrote: > And, Mark, you are right about the money for the kit, and if you could put a > Corvair in one, it would not come out to be any more than the KR, by the > time you add up all the stuff and the things that you had to do over. I > really think that it is the expense of the engine that really makes it a lot > more.
I did a little math exercise on a typical RV, which sell for something like $65k when you're done with one. I could get laid off from work, build an RV, and my time spent building would be equivalent to a minimum of 20 bucks an hour IF I decided to sell it when I was done. That beats flippin' burgers at McDonalds, and if I get a real job before I run out of money, I could keep it! Of course the problem is that if I didn't have a job, I wouldn't be able to build an RV, but that's what the wife's salary is for. And if you don't have a wife, and you've been living right, you could always get a second mortage. The engines aren't so bad, if you buy one that's almost run out and rebuild it. The parts prices are still obscene though, I'll be the first to admit, and there's no arguing that! My wife told me I had to work on the plane for two hours tonight before I came to bed, so I better get to it... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
