A friend's wife mentioned her husband's Eng RV7A had to be taken care of because of something - she couldn't recall what it was - was breaking up "into pieces" as she put it....he's away so I can't get details...have you heard of any such safety bulletins or events that might support her report?
Engenfellner RV7
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There is a customer-started Yahoo forum about the Viking here:Geico266 said:He is now sell the Viking Engine FF package to suckers in the home built LSA market.
http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Viking_Aircraft_Engine/conversations/messages
As best I can tell, while there are a lot of posts deriding Jan's personality and his past failures, it appears his Viking engine does work and a bunch have been shipped and flying. The longest running engine probably has a couple years on it and several hundred hours.
I don't see Jan as a snake oil salesman so much as a young man who over-reached and failed. A snake oil salesman fakes the oil and doesn't believe his own nonsense - he just wants to make money. No snake oil type would choose aircraft engines made from auto conversions as their market of choice. At least no sane one.
The problem that seems to have hurt him the most is that he was selling a very expensive mission-critical device. It is one thing to lose a few dollars or even a few hundred, but people get royally ****ed over losing tens of thousands of dollars. Particularly when the people losing the money were trying to save money.
Honda uses the Fit engine block in one of their marine engine products:Henning said:
http://marine.honda.com/outboards/motor-detail/BF90EFI
They also sell it as a racing engine:
http://www.honda.com/newsandviews/article.aspx?id=5383-en
I believe there are two other outfits that possibly followed Jan's lead and also chose to offer conversions of the Honda Fit engine to aircraft use.