I had one of John's first chutes in mine, it worked better than the one I made (I tried to make mine a break away, so that an in flight release would cause it to off) I guess Phil proved that may have not been as dangerous as I was worried about!

Anyway, the door release mechanism is pretty tricky, just some fine hand work. And the spring was hard to find, but if John is doing the kit the same way he used to, you get the tube and the spring with the chute. Worth it! Also, I could not taxi with mine, more power just caused the chute to pull harder the other way! If you have the channels a chute release would be very cool.

I had a JetCat P-160 in mine, incredible performance, I personally had not seen one with that much performance (speed and vertical). It used the RAM 1000 bypass from BVM and the hydroformed pipe. It ran MUCH better than the original Walti pipe. I would STRONGLY suggest the hydroformed BV pipe. And BTW, it still burned through after 65 flights, so keep a close eye on the pipe.

I finally got mine dialed in after I moved the CG way back, probabaly an 1/8 behind the plans. THis and I reduced the high expo I usually use on elevator. This made the flare infinitely better. I fought that thing for 50 flights before I got the CG back far enough. I lost mine on a failsafe safe after 65 flights. Still sick about it. I attribute it to karma, I had seriously considered selling it (a ton of money for those back then) and that is what got me. I never sell them.

You have a long nose version right? This is the one Redman built? If so you got a superlative model.