No you are not.
No, we went through this a long time ago, with Burt's planes, Beed's planes, and a couple others. It is part of the history of HB aircraft. Taking a trip up to Van's is one of the things that we did to see what we would be dealing with and to tell us how the real world feet on the floor people that make it happen carry on their day to day jobs. I was very lucky when I went there for the first time, I got the run of the place and talked to everyone that I could find about their job and what they thought along with how they did it and felt about their work. I agree with others here that you may wish to get your money out of your Glass-Air, but you would save a lot of time to make the change if you just sold off what you don't need for an RV. The 8 is a good platform for the size of engine and prop you have now, the mount would come right out of stock from Vans'. AND I should mention that the 8 dose have a training wheel on the nose of a few of them. We saw an "A" modal do a very nice aero show at OSKH this year. I don't think the airframe knew that the wheel was on the wrong end. Hope this helps, Yours, R.E.A. III #80888