bildan wrote:
'been scratchin' some paper.

It looks like a 2.6L flat opposed 8-cylinder could be made will not
too much difficulty from two Suzuki Hyabusa motorcycle cylinder
blocks. The electronic fuel injected 'busa puts out about 130HP so
two theoretically could make 260HP.

With 8 cylinders, the power pulses overlap a little so wouldn't put
too much stress on a planetary PSRU in a nose case.

In the opposed configuration, the stock rods work so only the crank,
PSRU and case would have to be fabricated. CNC does that sort of
thing well.

The result would be smaller and lighter than an O-200 - although that
doesn't take the liquid cooling system into consideration. Still
scratchin' but this thing looks cool.

Report back when you have it running and the first 100 hours run ok.

THEN it would look cool.

Until then it's just another net fantasy...