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Rick Lewis
Joined: 03 Jul 2007
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Location: Kingston, Tn.
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 Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 3:21 pm Post subject: Kolb MK3X possibly for sell (watercooled VW engine) |
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I am seriously thinking about selling my unfinished Kolb. I've lost interest since my partner has bailed out on me. This would be a truly quick build aircraft since the wings, horizontal stab, rudder, elevators, ailerons, and flaps are all done except for covering. The cage is set up for the WATER COOLED VW engine which is assemble and included in the deal. I am not looking for any profit on the plane just the actual money I have in it. All the many hours of labor to this point will be free. I haven't added all the receipt's up yet to come up with a cost but I thought I would send this post out to see if anyone would be seriously interested.
Rick Lewis (VW Watercooled powered)
e-mail cktman(at)hughes.net
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NeilsenRM(at)comcast.net
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:39 am Post subject: Kolb MK3X possibly for sell (watercooled VW engine) |
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Rick
I'm very disappointed you are thinking about selling.
For those of you that aren't familiar with the VW engine Rick has put on his
plane. Rick L please correct any misunderstandings. It is a Great Plains
2276cc engine with light weight Nikasil cylinders and the Valley Series 3
redrive. The water cooled part of this engine is much more than just
cooling. The water cooing package included a tuned intake system with
carburetor ( bing?), heads, water pump, and radiators. The Performance
improvement with this package is spectacular. I think one could
conservatively say that this engine would perform along side a 100hp Rotax
and likely blow its doors off. For reliability's sake one would want to
cruise at lower power settings but the climb rate could be unbelievable. The
water cooling would also solve the on the ground over heating issue a
air-cooled pusher engine has. With all this said don't run out and try to
buy the water cooling package. I was told that manufacturer was so concerned
about someone stealing their design that they restricted sales to the USA
and failed to get enough demand to stay in business.
This is also the first Kolb built VW engine mount. Rick did a great service
by working directly with Kolb to get this done. I know of at least two other
VW powered Kolbs being built because of his efforts.
Rick Neilsen
Flying Redrive VW powered MKIIIC
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