closetguy

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well for me just, a BME 58, 44,Taurus52.and two DA50's
but i will say this the two most dependable strongest engines i fly all the time are china made.

Tired Old Man

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MVVS headers and mufflers can be obtained from MVVS. Unlike just about any other engine manufacturer MVVS performs research into a better exhaust system for their products.

As for engines, I'm down a few at the moment.

BME 116
Brison 3.2
Brison 6.4
Ryobi conversion of about 40cc
DA 100
DA 150
3w-28
3w-24
Precision Eagle 4.2

karolh

What !!!! no Zenoah in your listing

Karol

captinjohn

Not a reply...just a note: I could have bought a Tarus 53cc but goofed. I still kick my self on that one !!!!!

Tired Old Man

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It could be worse. You could have sold a plane with your Taurus 52 in it when it left....

As for not having a Zenoah, I didn't count any of the engines I work with. That list is long indeed, and some don't yet exist.

Antique

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Ryobi 40 ??

computermonkey

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Webra Bully 35cc own several of them. Mostly glow, one ignition.
Webra 1.50 ignition put away.
Ordered Mark/Moki G140RC and G180RC.. Here that they are close to being shipped (back ordered for ever)
3W-55i

MTK

The US rep for Mintors, TOP DAWG, has never responded to emails and phone messages. Any news about these guys? Are they viable?

Tseres

Thanks T.O.M.

I looked them up but don't know how to calculate Euros to $.

Tseres

Top Dawg was a hot commodity last Year with Colton doing all the flying for them. Colton Showed up to Joe Nall this year without a plane. If he was my pilot , I'd make sure he had 10 of them to fly and show off. He is truly an amazing talent on the sticks.

Here is a picture from Joe Nall this year. From Left to Right. Gabriel Altuz, Daniel Holman, Fat Me and Colton Clark. I had a great time.
Do you guys want to see a video of Colton and Gabby flying together? Highly recomended by me.

clivemc

I am biased but loving my Mintors
Zenoah and MVVVS always been great, never owned a DA or 3W......

earlwb

I mostly have converted weedeater or chainsaw or snowblower engines myself.  One can't beat the price if they do the conversions themselves. I get mine on trash day when the previous owner puts them out to be disposed of.
I do have a three Chinese made gas engines, but I haven't even attempted to run them yet.

shawn0327

i run the DLE 20 and for price and power its hard to beat

Tired Old Man

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Ryobi or something. Never did determine what it was. The name was just a WAG.

Tired Old Man

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For currency conversions go to Google and type "currency converters" into the search bar. You'll get a lot of hits. Right now the Dollar/Euro exchange rate is something like 1 dollar =.7021 Euros. The value of a dollar sucks.

mrcasey69

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Subscribed!

I am currently running a MVVS 80 Twin Spark on MTW RE3 pipe in Hanger 9 Sukhoi and MVVS 58 Prosport LE on MTW RE2 in Aeroworks Edge 540. Here they are on my desk:

mmorg1

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My engines:
ZDZ 60 (broken)
ZDZ 80
3W 100
3W 55
Fox 3.2
BME 50
G38
Whats left of a Quadra 41
and one chinese 26cc attached to a broken airplane in the attic

aussiesteve

There is a 40cc Ryobi. On the RCS4040B Saw (a 16" blade). I have that particular saw here (it was an "inheritance", My main saw is an Echo CS400).

Funny place this is isn't it. Didn't take long for a company to use it to push their wares of their "latest addition", nor did it take long for some to tell us how their "C****** S***" are the best in the world.

Now back to the advertised programming

Just my personal observations to date
I find it interesting to see just how high the proportion is of the "old" engines out there that are still happily being flown because of their robustness and reliability. It is heartening to see.

I also find it interesting to see the proportion of "Home Made" (aka conversions) being listed. To me this is a hobby where "building skills" in general have been declining. Those doing conversions are right up there as skilled builders in my books.

apalsson

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Absolutely right.
Wouldn't it be interesting to know how many of the C****** are still running with a few hundred hours on them.
You quite commonly see that with all the brands that have been mentioned in this thread.
I'd love to see examples of how many hours have verifiably been clocked up on a given engine. I bet some of T.O.M.'s 3W engines have in excess of 500 hours on them.

Lightspeed1551

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Don't forget the O.S. GT 55 and new GT 33.

triumphman49

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Guess I'll also jump in with a few

Webra 10cc blackhead
Saito FG20
MVVS 26
Honda 31GX
Saito FG36
Saito FA270T
DA50
MVVS 58

Also have an O S 160T & a Saito FA150 on the list to convert, but first want to try further lightening my Honda - mabey a new C&H ignition for it.

Suscribed
T-man49
Club Saito #723

triumphman49

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Hey, Where did US Engines originate? ? ? Got a US41 also.

Tired Old Man

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I could go to the used shelves and grab a large number of 500 hour engines. Once people learned how to run them the problem was getting them to retire them with less than 500 hours on them. I've got some with 700+ and still making within 100 RPM of the best they ever did. Not a one has ever had a ring changed. Oil and temp control, along with an initial good design and quality control, is what made it all happen. And they have each more than paid for themselves a couple thousand times over through that life cycle and reliability.

Tx_RcFlyer

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Zenoah:
G45 - Converted to Electronic Ignition
G38 - Mag
G26 - Mag

Homelite 30cc conversion.

Chinese
D*E 30 x 3
D*E 55

Super08

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The US41 originally started out as a Canada built Quadra 42. They were sold stateside and they became an American company which in turn changed hands again and the US41 came into being. I am not sure of the timing etc, but that is the basics.