Don,

do you have a glass Brushfire fuse or are you planning to build a plug? If the latter, I'd be interested in exchanging some thoughts on the subject.

I think it might be worth considering a two piece fuse in order to accommodate a vertically mounted RE engine and easy access to the pipe for installation and maintenance. Basically the same reasoning as there is behind the evolution of the Arrow glass fuses where fully removable decks are now part of the glass fuse design. I think the original glass fuses made the engine installation tricky much like the first Arrows and Bootleggers (and Exceptions too for that matter - I've been going back and forth on how best to set that one up!). For this reason, I think many of the glass (and wood) Brushfire fuses had the engines installed side mounted. My interest in the design stemmed from the idea of it being well suited (at least in its wood version) to a straight forward RE setup. I also think it is ideally suited to a plug-in wing approach.

If you have any specific thoughts on how you plan to go about it, I'd be interested in hearing them.

David