Doug Rupert wrote: >The Corvair is a better choice but cores are getting harder to find without spending large dollars.<
I've paid exactly a hundred bucks for all four of the Corvair engines that I've bought. The MOST I've ever heard of anybody paying for one was $500, and that's the only one. $300 is considered "high". They are somewhat difficult to find immediately, but if you don't mind waiting a month or two, one will come up. Probably once a month somebody comes up with a few on the CorvAircraft list, and offers them to the other listers at no profit. They are usually $100-200. Even $500 may sound high, but when you consider that you'll have about $2500 in parts in it when you're done, the original purchase price just about pales into insignificance. The closest "Corsa" chapter is another excellent place to find engines too. That's where I got mine, located 90 miles away in Birmingham. There's a little more info on this at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/corvair/donors.html . I'll confess that they are sufficiently hard to find that I bought four (just in case I decide to build a twin next), but cost is not a real issue, unless you want one TODAY... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL N56ML at hiwaay.net see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
