Please tell us the type of experience you have, things like maneuvers you can do at anytime without being nervous, how much wind do you typically fly in, basically what we need to help you is a bit more detail.

Jumping up to gasser is a big step and in most cases plan on roughly $1000 to $1500 on your first one and learning certain things all over again. Like how to tune the engine (not even close to tuning a glow engine), proper geometry of the linkages, PCM versus FM, orientation (big planes look slower than they really are and look closer than they really are), proper exhaust systems (mainly to cut down on noise), things like that.

I'm not saying you cannot do it, but a good bit of research needs to go into your first gasser. The plane is the easy part, all the stuff for it is the hard part.

You actually asked this exact same question over in the Sport Flying forum just under a little bit different subject line.