Take a look at the BMW R1100S conversion, there are hundreds running
in Europe made by a German company called Takeoff Gmbh. Takeoff will
sell you just the redrive or the entire engine and exhaust, ready to
bolt on. The complete engine is about $8000, is rated at 100
horsepower, and uses a brand new BMW engine with dual ignition, etc.
That's a heck of an alternative to an O-200 when you consider that it
is 20 lbs lighter and includes Motronic engine management. The
Takeoff parts are beautiful. This is much more than bolting a Rotax C
gearbox on a motorcycle engine. What I want to do is take that engine
and put an RB RAcing turbo system on it. Balancing fuel requirements
and the strength of the gearbox, 115-120 horsepower is about all I can
ask for without adding supplemental fuel, but the RB turbo system will
maintain that power all the way to 30,000 feet with the help of an HKS
boost controller.


On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 04:43:52 GMT, "Toks Desalu"
wrote:

:I am in process of searching for an engine.....well two engines. I am
:looking at approimately 100 to 120 horsepower engine each. I am sure that
:most people would strongly recommend a reputed aircraft engines. However, I
:do not want to limit myself to it. I wanted to see everything before I can
:make my decision. Of course, the lighter the engine is, the better. Please
:feel free to suggest anything to me. I think I just completed my research on
:reputed aircraft engines. I might miss something, so don't hesitate to
:mention anything that I might miss. I am currently looking and studying the
:rotary engines. Any input about it? Any website about it? Is there any
:converted auto engines with horsepower that I am looking for? I will get
:into auto research later on, but feel free to talk about it. I will keep all
:the posts to my hard drive. Anything related to engines, you better speak
ut!!!!!
:
:Toks Desalu
:PP-SEL
yin' to fly!
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