Yes indeed, striving for the (all but) impossible is always a noble
task.
I'm in a completely different frame of mind, I'm concentrating on
building my first airplane and working out a powerplant isn't one of
the new experiences I want to tackle, and getting a pilot's license
will probably be hand along the way as well. (Yep, I'm doing it
backwards. ;^)

Just to be a devil's advocate for a moment, if one were to add $1 per
hour for all the time used thinking about it, plus all the actual
money spent testing out ideas, that $2000 engine might be a lot closer
to $10K than anyone is willing to admit. Nonetheless "Because I want
to" is a phrase that has no intrinsic value, and yet is worth a
million bucks to whoever says it.

I'll continue to follow this thread with interest, please return to
your regularly scheduled brainstorming.

Cheers
Gerry


Briefly, the homebuilder would be overjoyed to find a device that's
dirt-cheap, rock-solid, as reliable as taxes, and oh: pretty would be nice.
* * * That's a hard prescription to fill, but the faithful keep thinking
and looking. $2K would be nice - $10K isn't.

Brian W