Of course if you're turbo system blows the
engine, you won't run it that way again, so you'll be re-doing the
intake, exhaust AND rebuilding an engine :-) I can pretty much
say that the rotary has a one engine chance of success. If it blows,
I'll be shopping for a Lycoming.
That’s hardly fair. I have a
friend who built a lancair IVP and had the engine blow up first flight.. he
didn’t go shopping for a 20B. Another friend just finished his RV-8
and sucked in a bolt at 100hrs. He didn’t go shopping for a rotary
either. J Trade in the turbo if you must, but you know that a na 13b
will make plenty of power for an RV-3 and you have already done the hard
part. It would take more work to convert back at this point.