Originally Posted by
Jagdfleiger
Mat - where on this view do you think the carb will exit the cowl?
Just aft of the front cowl and just under the side cowl. Cool photo by the way. I did give thought to tilting the motor but I don't think I would gain much. One could build a 90 degree intake manifold and relocate the carb behind the engine and use a header to push the muffler back to a location over the fuel tank. More practically I could probably go with a shorter carb isolator and shorten the velocity stack to regain as much as a half inch from the width of the engine. If I were going for a full on competition plane I would have just used a different engine. As it is, I am (relative to this being a 1/4 scale airplane) on a fairly tight budget and I got a screaming good bargain on the engine at a swap meet. I am going for as much scale appearance as I reasonably can but if I end up with an airplane that is recognizably a D3a and which can be flown without a lot more set up required than my BUSA N17 then I will have met my design goals.