Paul,
That Corvete drivetrain looks like a nightmare.  The Hy-vo
chain looks the same as done starting with the '66 Toranado, but the
rest...  uugh!
Dan F

Paul the first computer I ever owned I built in 94. It had 11 drives off a
SCSI expansion card and 2ns ram whigh was terribly unreliable, It had two
power supplies and failed them every year. I still have "frankenstein" but he
is retired. Currently I use western digital hard drives a lot of sony stuff
for the other devices and asus or jet main boards with 3.2 or 3.8Ghz
processors and either 2 or four gegs of ram.The failure point is the ram. If
it boots up strange I swap the ram around to se if it runs differently. The
unreleased Nemesis is better than vista but vista is now developed past XP.

I will be using Linux Ubutu with a real time kernel for the free EMC-2  cam
software for the milling machine. I am installing dual ballscrews adjusted
out of phase to minamize backlash  in 1" and 11/4 " diameters with .25 lead.

I got  the list of components from Chrissy Cozy Girl an just went shopping.
Still waiting  for one part to show up on  e-bay. I don't want too many
projects in too many directions so that is on hold till I get the rotary
core engine  done. I need the weight number for wing position on the
airframe which is drawn enough for me to build. I did an aerobatic  twin
engine PSRU with constat speed prop. It uses spherical roller bearings
tsubaki hyvo chain and dual ring fetters in the sprockets.Thrust capacity on
these bearings is a percentage of radial load ut they were the only thing I
could locate that was operating within rated RPM limits in the shaft
diameters I was useing.

It  proved to be too heavy (80 pounds). the tandem
engines was clearly the way to go. I am currently interested in a carbon
fibre prop made to order by Sencenitch in florida. I would have to build the
hub for five blades, but I have a 12 diameter spinner for the prop and don't
find the hub much of a challenge except that I want the  hyd pump in the hub
driven by the spinner as used on aerobatic planes such as Zlin for single
lever control. Thanks for the mailing  address,

george grmes