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RE: top flite p-51 giant scale build - 9/1/2006 6:30:32 PM   
dragonfly24_24



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Status: offline 		ok people i have gotten a little ferther.

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RE: top flite p-51 giant scale build - 9/1/2006 6:33:11 PM   
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RE: top flite p-51 giant scale build - 9/1/2006 9:12:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		I hope to have more time to read this thread this weekend. I tried to sneak in to computer room as my wife is screaming to leave for vacation. No internet where we are going.....Aghhhhhh!!!! I saw a post about custom exhaust and had to try and catch a glimpse of this thread.

My problem:

Top Flite Giant P-51 ARF version. I bought a 3w75i motor....HUGE! Got the inverted Pitts muffler...even HUGER...new word. No way the muffler will fit. Engine has to move forward about 10" to make it work. Don't think so. I will try and post some pics later, but for the most part.....this is my most difficult build yet and closer to kit than ARF I think. At least for me.

Can't wait to read the thread in it's entirety and thanks to the individual who posted the link to custom exhaust.

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RE: top flite p-51 giant scale build - 9/2/2006 11:17:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		ok i have put the top stringers in. looks good to me.fly200 i hope you get some good info from this post. this is the first one i have done. i plan on building another plane to be determind. i have a small fun fly called a twist and after i finish this build i will have something for scale. i have a trainer and something i dont really know what is. but i think the next build i do is going to be pure speed i was thinking of getting the xl patriot from tower hobbies. but we will see how this goes.thats it for now see yall later.

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RE: top flite p-51 giant scale build - 9/5/2006 6:24:32 AM   
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Status: offline 		already learning a lot on this thread! Finally back from vacation and can get back to this kind of fun!!!!! I will try and get pics posted of the progress and soon will hope to have pics of my 3w75 motor installed. Got three props in last week. Will keep you posted.

To above post.....I just bought a demon S wing. 180mph!!!!!! It should cure my speed fix and will be a nice change flying with my P-51 at the field. Fun having two completely different flying airplanes on the same day!




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RE: top flite p-51 giant scale build - 9/5/2006 10:15:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		i am glad that you are interested in my thread. hope you get a lot more out of this! but i think i have made my diss. on next plane and its going to be the patriot XL there is people that have clocked it at over 200 mph!!!!!!!!!! i am going to get a webra .91 speed for it. should scream across the sky.

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RE: top flite p-51 giant scale build - 9/6/2006 6:51:07 PM   
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My problem:

Top Flite Giant P-51 ARF version. I bought a 3w75i motor....HUGE! Got the inverted Pitts muffler...even HUGER...new word. No way the muffler will fit. Engine has to move forward about 10" to make it work. Don't think so. I will try and post some pics later, but for the most part.....this is my most difficult build yet and closer to kit than ARF I think. At least for me.




Are you sure you want to use that motor?....
I'm building a Ziroli stang, see website (bit bigger than the Top Flite) and got same motor.
Not until after I bought the engine "...I have been told..." that the 60 would have been enough for it, I quote: "with the 60 you just point it where you want to go, and it will pull it"

too late now, I can always throttle back

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RE: top flite p-51 giant scale build - 9/6/2006 7:07:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		A friend of mine flys a P-51 powered by a Moki 1.80 and it SCREAMS. I bought a Moki 2.10 so mine would go a little faster. I'm also working on a Yellow Aircraft P-40 and YA suggested a G-62 (which I bought) although it is 9 pounds heavier than my Top Flite. Hope this helps a little.

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RE: top flite p-51 giant scale build - 9/6/2006 9:06:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		i app. your conserns but i have already bought the moter and its not the smallest moter in the range i have talked to scott the person that converts the engine i got he said that he has talked to people that have put that engine in that plane. and it fly's very well i may not get unlimited vertical but its not an areobatic plane it should fly very well.also i was looking for an engine that i did not half to mutalate the cowling. i am however going to change prop and go with i think maybe a bolly carbon fiber 20x10 should fly very well. i have talked to another guy that has same engine and plane combo says his does over 120 mph. will see i am getting ready to move to florida so i wont be getting airbourn anytime soon. but my earler estamint of december looks right on the money maybe even october.

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RE: top flite p-51 giant scale build - 9/7/2006 11:32:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well, like you said. I already bought the motor. Mounted it up today!!!!! The 3w75ius is the biggest possible motor to ever grace the Top Flite P-51. This should allow me to reinforce without concern for weight. Also, I would like to fly a 4 blade prop after break-in which is another need for my bigger motor. I just bought two break in wood props and a new tri-blade carbon fiber. I might sell my tri-blade to someone who wants it.

Break in: I am getting answers all over the board. My manual says clearly to break it in on an engine stand being exremely careful not to over heat. My LHS and even 3w supplier says to break it in up in the air???

3w vendor said to use 6 bottles of the lawn boy oil for break in.

LHS says use the oil I am going to use right from the start at the higher ratio so there is no increased on site maintenance????

I think it will really move strong with authority. After your posts, I am not as concerned with weight which will allow me to beef up the interior more!

Hope to maiden in two weeks!

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RE: top flite p-51 giant scale build - 9/8/2006 2:23:56 AM   
dragonfly24_24



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Status: offline 		hope your maden goes good i tried to start my engine today and was unsucsessfull i called the manuf. and he says they are very very hard to start by hand and recomended a starter. as far as break in goes you can do it on a stand or in the plane it does not matter all you do is add more oil of corse peak the moter out at top rpm then back off about 300 run that way for about six flights then go ahead and peak out.

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RE: top flite p-51 giant scale build - 9/8/2006 1:20:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		thank dragonfly for breakin tips. I have never broke a gas engine in before. Have bought my planes used in the past. Sorry you are having trouble starting yours. Let us know if the starter got you running today.

quick question: Does anyone use a servo for the choke?

PS: I had dinner at dragonfly restaurant in Dallas last night. Ha!!!!!!! Pretty good place at the Za Za hotel. FANCY!

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RE: top flite p-51 giant scale build - 9/8/2006 2:04:56 PM   
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