GET A RIDE  (The TOTAL performance is so much more than speed)

Hi All, I am building an RV7 at the same airport as Robert Paisley (CCB) and have been fortunate enough to have ridden with him many times. I had taken my first flight in an RV in Robert's plane. I was amazed at just how easy to operate his plane was with the 2.5L flat four Subaru. I then was with him when we flew faster than Dan Checkoway's  RV7. At that time Robert had the STi motor and I was even more impressed with this engine. Last week I got my first ride with the new H6 motor. The first thing I noticed was how smooth the engine was. Its AMAZING! You have never felt anything like it in a piston airplane. If any of you lurkers are on the fence take my word and get a ride, you'll be hooked. Ryan I recently did my BFR with a CFI who is a retired military pilot.  He was the only CFI who would let me do it in my Glastar, the others were affiliated with an FBO and were obligated to push rental time in a Cessna. He had never seen an Eggenfellner conversion, nor had he seen a Quinti hub with a computer controlled unit.  He was amazed.  As we taxied down to the start of the runway I did my fuel pump and over-ride checks on the run, so when we got to the run-up area I went to taxi straight out onto the runway.  Woah! he said, what about the run-up?  I replied that it was all done and in any case the engine computer was doing far more checks per second than I could ever do.  We took the active runway and took off.  He weighs 240 lbs, but we still left the runway a long way before where a C172 would lift off and climbed out at about 1000 fpm.  As the prop controller reduced engine revs he asked what was reducing revs, so I told him it was fully automatic.   After that he was sold and he was more interested in how the aircraft performed than what I did.  He made me do landings on tiny strips just to see the Quinti/Egg combination do its stuff. There's no doubt, the Egg engine is so far advanced now that it looks like magic to the uninitiated. Needless to say the BFR was a done deal. Chris L.