337 or High Performance Single for low time pilot?

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Primary training is hard on engines and airframes, and won't show up for a couple of years. But then, things will be handfuls of problems.
Rent a 172 or a warrior, go learn to fly.
Do the ME in someone else's plane.
Then get your plane.
Talk about shock cooling, when you feather the engine in a ME, things cool down fast. Then, you have to restart it. Huge loads on the engine, right now.