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Could you put together an automotive pusher power plant mostly off-the-shelf?

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Tiger Tim

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Another thread here that I promised myself I would never post on has recently shown a major failure of a one-off home-brew diesel pusher and it got me wondering, could the same general idea be made to work but much easier? I don’t have a horse in this race (and never will) but let’s say the constraints are it needs to be based on a used auto engine, any fuel, and mounted on an unpressurized airframe. Also required is a minimal test program, the idea being to use things that are already reasonably well proven and can be operated with confidence. Basically nothing groundbreaking, hence off-the-shelf. Again, this is just me asking people smarter than myself just for the purpose of my own general education.

Could it be as simple as a junkyard LS V8 with an airboat gearbox, electric CS prop, and an EFI system from SDS or similar?
 
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