Few years ago the R was almost double the price of the CV. Don't think all the HP figures you read about are written in stone. It's what they do on the track that counts, not when some add promotion person pulls them out of their posterior.

Both of these OS engines are nice. Till the supply of R's dries up it would be my engine of choice between the two. The CV needs one thing to make it the perfect little .12 engine, a better cooling head. They did it with the Hyper but then dropped it out of the lineup. It was rugged, had a wide needle range, and plenty of power for most tracks.

Ed M.