# Help Ed Build His Plane **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** engines\ **Created:** [March 12, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/help-ed-build-his-plane/45961 "2010-03-12T16:57:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Tom\_and\_Ray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/96bed5/32.png) [@Tom\_and\_Ray](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tom_and_Ray)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/help-ed-build-his-plane/45961/1 "2010-03-12T16:57:53Z")
This week on Car Talk, we heard from Ed in Pennsylvania. (You can hear the call [right here.](http://www.cartalk.com/Radio/player5/player.php?a=shortclip&id=local-cartalk-890365)) He's got to choose between two engines. Big deal, right? Except that this engine is going in a plane Ed is building. From scratch. No kidding. (Who screens these calls, anyway?) Should he go for the tried-and-true airplane engine, or save $10,000 and opt for a Subaru engine? And, is this really the right place to save a few bucks? What would you do, if having your engine stall might mean a crash-landing in the woods of Elmira? Let us (and Ed!) know what you'd do -- and thanks. Tom and Ray Magliozzi Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers --- _[View the full topic](https://community.cartalk.com/t/help-ed-build-his-plane/45961)._