Scott, I feel your pain. Glow fuel costs will break the bank with some of these larger engines. You need just a little more plane to get where gas engines make sense and are the best performers without making a pig of a plane. Good luck with that extra, its a nice looking plane, and if it flies anything like the Katana you will enjoy it. I have an extra on the way also, but with an 84" wing. I will be running a BME 50cc gas engine. Take care!