giffy wrote:1705493 How are you making out with that Veco .19 ? I was looking at mine and, I don't think the crank web will hold up to the diesels compression.
Giffy 8)
Giffy,
You're right and somehow, I never got your message. Then again, I should have got back to you guys. Ma fault, en Francaise, my bad in English.
Anyway, I covered the project at RCU here,
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_23821 ... tm#2695737
As mentioned, it works but I don't know how to compare the performance to other diesels, conversion or OEM. Still, it was fun trying and I may fly it in a biggish Cub or something someday. Too many engines, not enough airplanes.
CharlesF
Thanks for reviving this thread and reminding me that I owed a report. You're right about a small CP, it doesn't seem optimum. And yes, a tweak of the tommybar doesn't work here. You really have to crank the CP to get any effect.
Next time, I'm going to run the engine as glow, get some numbers and then run it on diesel with the same prop. No team racing but in this case, the engine, on diesel, with a small prop just might be stronger on the verticals compared to glow.