Pat Roy: "All I ask is that they produce reasonable power, reliably, for a reasonable period of time. Nothing matters after that. Where I have problems is when people buy an engine that either won't start, won't run well enough to pull a plane that fits the engine size, wears out in a week, or physically breaks under normal use in a month or two. That's where a customer gets screwed. If the engine doesn't match any of the biggies in appearence or brute strength, who cares. It only has to work the way it's supposed to. "

I have to agree with this. I bought an inexpensive 26 quite a while ago but just left it sitting in its box as I didn't have anything I wanted to put it in. Finally got a plane for it to go in, so put the engine on the test stand to run/tweak and it just would not run because it will not draw fuel. I've sent it back this morning hopefully to get it repaired in a timely manner but I'll probably not buy anything else again that isn't a well known brand. Just isn't worth it to me. The engine, a BCMA Sport 26.