The problem with all this talk of funding and putting engines into production is that either the Cyclone people don't understand what it takes to actually do this, or they do and are ignoring it in order to pull in bucks.
These people are talking nickels and dimes in comparison to what is needed. You don't build and test A engine. You build a whole bunch of exactly identical engines and then test them in dynamometers under all different sorts of operating conditions. One dynamometer isn't going to cut it if you want to put in the requisite number of hours in a reasonable amount of time -- it's going to take a number of machines. From what I recall, the total number of hours Cyclone has spent dyno testing all their engines isn't a lot different than what a legit manufacturer might spend testing some individual engines in their program. And this testing would occur in a period measured in weeks, not in a decade.
This outfit never had an engine designed to rational engineering principles (spider bearing, indeed!). They never had any sort of logical test program and nothing like a reasonable business model.
So, now that the company is ostensibly broke, they announce that they are going to pull a product out of their hat along with a factory to manufacture it. Funny that they can now do everything with nothing but before couldn't manage the money in a professional manner...
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