If it's not "difficult" it's probably not very fun either. There's a T-6 out there that's been a long term project for an Unlimited air racer with a 2800, think about that, a T-6 with a 2800. I love people that try to think outside the box. I knew a few people involved in this project...
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Yeah, those were “big block” 331s that were capable of like 1500 hp and flat rated down to 1000. The -12s (which are a “small block” engine) can do 1000 pretty easily, especially in something that’s never going to climb above 10k feet.
Probably, didn't Yeager set the time to climb records in it? A 331 on the front of an AN-2 should be considered blasphemous, it's already ugly and now you want to make it obnoxiously loud? I don't pray, but I'll hope you correct your ways. You don't have to be so recalcitrant all of the time.
I disagree, how would you feel about an Allison 250 powered Staggerwing?
Would you own it?
Hell no! I would have an MU-2 and an L-39 and I guess maybe if I were OBSCENELY rich a 7X and a Mig-29, although I think maybe those would be hard to justify even if I were as rich as Croesus/Bezos. But my er, what, "aesthetic judgements"(?) aren't the arbiters of what is right and proper. Big world, big tent, tent stays up and filled better when we don't spend too much time wagging our fingers.
As long as you can pull some bleed air from that 331 to drive a train horn I’m all in.
Weirdly coincident childhood (near as makes any difference, anyway) memory: My buddy Greg had a 1966 Grand Prix in high school. I suspect you know what that car is and how very much not anything even approaching being deserving of the appellation "Grand Prix" it was. But he had an "01" (a la Dukes of Hazard) decal on the side made from refrigerator magnets AND a million candle-power spotlight, AND a horn which would play "Dixie", AND a horn which would make extremely high volume steam-locomotive noises when he put it in reverse. Good times. The fridge-magnet numbers later were transported to my 1967 Bitchin Camaro, which, as you can see, was mostly just a cat playground. The "0" seems to have been lost, more's the pity.
Dunno. Just heard it though the grapevine.
Most likely, Experimental - Exhibition. For non-jets, pretty easy to obtain.
