I will be installing a BRS 800 softpack chute in my turtledeck. It's a 25 lb weight penalty but I am willing to absorb that for the piece of mind I get from it. At $3500 it's cheap life insurance.
10/20/2010 Today I talked to BRS about installing the chute in a KR2. There have been KR2 installs prior to mine but it was using the tube or VLS sytem. Don't know why that choise was made but the prefered installation on most planes is the softpack unit and that is what I will be using. The attach points are the R/L main spar root and the tailwheel attachment fitting. Externally the chute uses (3) 120" bridles that are roughly 1/4" thick and 1 1/4" wide. These need to be installed in a channel from the front of the turtledeck to the attach points and covered with a single layer of glass. That will be easy for the rear attach point, but a bit more difficult to get the bridles up to each spar. As I work this out I will post pics and drawings. The 3 bridles run about $220 each and that price will be deducted from the total once I am ready to buy the chute itself.
More to come