steve

Wow ...TY jim and all, just biting my nails waiting for the mail (plane)'s to get here so i can start. i'v waited 44 years to do this...Tap,Tap,Tap u know the drill. i held off building for 10 years so i could finish 634 case's of bud..lol so its been pepsi for 3 years and a good old buddy named Bill W.

I got a 95 saturn engen siting on the floor of the shop with 40K on it and can get the car and that for 800.00 (??????)

i start on the 42" x 15 ' table sat. ty all for the imputt on the shop top, door est..and ps...i'll keep asking dumb stuff till i get the build started becase then i wont have the time to ask dumb stuff. so bere with the new kid (me) I JUST LOVE reading all your replies u all have so much to tell me..

ty, Steve M. Parkins

Originally posted by Jim Sower

Steve,

I was, in my own inimitable way, going to respond to your questions around what kind of engine to use with a couple of thousand words of deathless prose on the subject. I am no fan of Lycoming for a variety of very good reasons.

 

Anyway, there is a better way to go. To quote my friend and mentor John Slade:

 

The playing field is changing. My advice is get on and build the airframe and give little thought to which engine will power it until the last possible minute. In 3, 4 or 5 years the situation will have changed. That much is certain.

 

Perhaps rotary and/or subaru powerplants will have proven themselves. Perhaps not. There might be a reasonably priced diesel available (dont hold your breath). Perhaps insurance will be easier, or harder to get. Maybe the available fuels and/or prices will have changed.

 

To anyone just getting started I say don't even think about it. Keep in touch with what's going on, but save you're decision until you're airframe is complete..... then examine the issues as they stand at that time with respect to performance history, cost, insurability etc. etc.

 

I belong to the Cozy email list, this forum, the Rotary list and (until I settled on Mazda) the Subaru list. If you follow the Cozy list and this forum, you will get tons of information on engines while you're building your airframe. Take it all in, but don't take any of it too seriously. Again, quoting Dr. Slade:

 

Four or five years from now, you will make a very well informed decision around which engine you are going to install in your Cozy. That decision will be rational and astute and based at least 80% on information that won't exist for another two or three years.

 

To quote another respected contributor:

Enjoy the build!

Getting worked up about engines at this stage of the game is an exercise in mental masturbation.

If you really really feel you need all that prose, let me know and I'll work someting up and send it offline. These guys have heard most of it and a lot of it is in the archives anyway.

 

Best,

Jim S.

Hi, read some of your notes in the posting and it sounds true and sound to me i'm just starting to build a cozy 4 hope is't a cheep way of geting a 4 place [me and her and 2 freinds up up and away... So now i wander what to power it with ? do'n need much, just smart safe your thoughts ?

Steve Parkins

ps ty jim Sower

Shoot, missed that, the duble car and the 30x15 has only 8 foot doors

if i header the 2 car and remove the center i can get it out, right ? [400.00 in glue lam ] what a pain. but i'm ok for now ? i need all my money to get the first chuck so i can start the thing got a clue on the min...start up cost will be ? i got every tool known to man and some i'll never use. ty for the help.

Steve M. Parkins

just a note to all..ok i'v looked at the plane seen the depo in the old fullerton store got the video bought the tee shirt.

so the plans will be in my hands in T- 5 days so i'mm seting up the shop, i got 30x14 and a 20x9 and a 20x9 or 20x20 if i move a wall (10 min)so 30x14 and 20x20 any help?