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Dan, my post does not disagree with your admonitions....in fact I purposely
stated that Magnum Project proceeded for over 2 years in silence before
showing the first production model for the very reasons  you site.  What I
disagree with is that no one is willing to spend the $$$ to TRY and DEVELOP
a well engineered V8 engine, therefore V8's are suspect.  American Engine
is trying to change that by doing the necessary homework.  In addition my
post is not  a call for sales.  The program has the $$$ necessary to
complete the task.  My final sentence makes it clear that 2 customers will
be working diligently to fly next year, with 6 others behind them, I being
one.  I mentioned that we all expect problems to arise, which will have to
be reengineered where necessary. Hopefully if the engineers have done their
job correctly, there will be little redo, but no one expects this huge
project to be perfect right out of the box.  I expect the company to make
some noise about their product to the press after they have test celled the
production engine for many hours.  And then there will be silence until the
first LIV's are flying.  What else would you expect a responsible company
to do?

Doug & Susan:  

I suggest you go back and reread my post.  All of your questions were
answered.  I know about the Bouley PMA engine as I almost bought one.  You
state that my post was reminiscent of his engine.  Hardly.  He advertised
for sale to all comers publically long before he had product.  He did not
claim to revolutionize aviation, just to produce a quality knockoff of the
Cont 550.  His castings were poor (I inspected them at Victor Aviation)
both on the inside and outside.  My post brings to this forum legitimate
challenges which must be properly addressed when designing a V8 engine.  I
am interested in an alternative engine for my LIV, but I'm more interested
in a company which is seriously addressing those problems which I
mentioned.  If they have properly analyzed the loads and have carefully
calculated the heat transfer requirements, then MAYBE they have something.
Only flight testing will confirm.......stay tuned....

Marshall Michaelian (SQL, 75% completed and holding, LIV-P with Eagle540
V8)