Brent,
I have about 130hrs on the engine and it has performed well. But I was 100 miles from home with it at my sons wrestling tournament two months ago and when I went to return home it would not start. After exhausting every thing I and two other area mechanics there could think of, I decided to remove the engine and send it back to Speedwing Canada for service. It had spark, fuel and compression but would not fire on either cylinder even with starting fluid. We suspected a weak spark or poor compression. The compression checked out better than when new, as then it was 78 on cylinder number one and 80 on two. Now after 130hrs I have 110 on one and 115 on two. A local aircraft mechanic suggested that with higher compression that it takes a strong spark or it can blow out under the increased pressure. The ignition specialist representing Ducati ignitions says that can't be. He said that electronic ignitions either work or they don't. To which I replied, that is the problem exactly. It worked and then it didn't.
So I just sent the whole engine to be serviced. Hopefully this week I will have some answers. Guy De France is the owner of the dealership where I bought it and he has been a week at Sun n Fun in Florida with his mechanics representing his products. He returned for two days and has now left for Moscow, Russia to return with a Russian built trike he wants to sell. The mechanics stayed behind and are working on my engine now. Except for this unexplained failure to start I have had nothing but good to say about the engine. I have one of the first 20 Victor 2 engines sold in North America. It is V2 # 44 serial number. It is the earlier 688cc model, the new ones are 40 cc larger. But the same rated hp. Guy told me last fall that he had sold 182 engines total and of those, has had two engine failures. One was replaced by the factory for a defect and one lost its coolant due to a bad hose connection. No fault of the engine there. At that time they were giving flying lessons in an Xair with a Victor 2 and had reached 500 hrs on it with no repairs. He told me I was in second place for the most hrs as many get flown only 50hrs a year. I did receive an email from England from a man who had an engine seizure with his and wanted to know what I was doing different as all 15 engines sold at a dealership there had failed at less than 10 hrs. I could only say that it must have been a factory defect in those. He emailed me later and said that the factory was standing behind the repairs on his and he would keep me posted how he turned out. I have not heard from him since February.
I have had probably 20 inquiries on this engine since I posted mine on the Zenair website.
The biggest difficulty was delays in shipping across the border from Canada and the fact that Quebec english is more like french.
So
I guess I will be looking at some thing I can get here.