ETM TURBINES
10-28-2011, 04:47 PM
#1
ETM TURBINES
Guy's Check it out
http://easytigermodels.com/index.php...index&cPath=38
There are a few different choices out there today if you are looking to get
a new turbine...they come from all over the place...but these are the only
ones that come from the True Home Of Performance...
ITALIA!
I mean, just say it to yourself: "ITALY!" ...immediately, your tongue
begins to salivate...not just because of the fresh mozzarella and the
canelloni, but because Italians make the MOST BEAUTIFUL, HIGHEST PERFORMING
MACHINES IN THE WORLD.'
Face it...no kid ever dreamt of having a freaking Dodge Stratus when they
grew up...the poster on the wall was of a Ferrari, Lamborghini, or Bugatti.
Even just typing those very names get the blood boiling, notice how your
computer runs a little faster with those words on the screen? It's
true...your computer WISHES it was made in Italy, instead of being some
drumpy product of Far Eastern drone-workers. If Bugatti made a computer,
you could bet it would be faster and more beautiful than any other, and for
sure, it would be a beautiful blue color, not some drab black plastic like a
common doorstop.
I mean, you can buy a turbine made in GERMANY, they are fine, in a
mundane, workaday kind of way, like a Mercedes, which is commonly used a a
TAXI in many countries...they are fine, reliable choices for colorless
middle-manager types that work for Mittelstand-type industrial machinery
corporations like Werner and Pfleiderer in Dusseldorf, who just want to go
back and forth to work to and from their cookie-cutter cement houses every
day, until they retire or go postal and take out the whole neighborhood...I
mean, that's fine, if that's all you want out of life, basic German-type
transportation and German-type style...when you say "style" and "German" in
the same sentence, that's like saying "love song" and "German" in the same
sentence, it just does not work..."ICH LIEBE DU" sounds like a gutteral
military command, like "THE PRISONERS ARE ESCAPING!"
Now try it in Italian:
Say "Amore." Now say "Italia." See how those words just flow together,
like champagne sipped from an expensive Ferragamo shoe, just slipped from
the foot of a nubile young Genoese Marquesa? And you are going to buy a
GERMAN engine over an ITALIAN?
Suit yourself...they are OK engines, those Cherman ones, until you need
service...I once had a Mercedes, when it went to the shop, it was always
seven-hundred-and-fifty dollars for an alternator bearing, and it had to be
special ordered from Aschwascher, Germany, and it took months. I swear, it
was the automotive equivalent of an upside-down mortgage, that car was worth
more dead as parts than alive as a car. Plus, my mechanic, who called
himself not a mechanic, but a SPECIALIST, whose name was ATTILA(no, really,
it was) put at least one of his kids through an expensive private college on
the bills for my car alone. But, hey, suit yourself, if you want to buy a
German engine. Don't blame ME if you get stuck in the mud just 18 miles
from Moscow...
You could also buy one of those new, cheap engines made in Taiwan.
Really exciting turn of a phrase, isin't it? "Made in Taiwan". Imagine a
whole army of faceless Taiwanese salarymen in identical cheap black business
suits, carrying identical cheap black vinyl briefcases, all marching in
formation towards a cold grey building full of cubicles, all droning "Made
in Taiwan...Made in Taiwan...Made in Taiwan" in unison.
And you are going to stick that in your lovely, lovely new jet?
Mmmmmmmmmmmkay!
Think about this...no kid ever said to his Father: "Say, Pop, can I
borrow your HYUNDAI to take Suzie to the prom, instead of my Ferarri? I
want to make a good impression on her!" So go ahead. Buy that Taiwanese
engine. People may laugh at you. Probably quietly, behind your back. You
may face some bemused, superior smiles from some owners of Fine Eyetalian
Machinery, as they called that stolen Maserati on "the Sopranos."
You might also buy a turbine made in Mexico. Mexico is well known for
making high performance machinery...such as...um...well...I think they still
make original Volkswagen Beetles there, right? I'm pretty sure. Might be
they stopped in the Nineties. I'd have to Google it up. Anyway, the 40hp
Beetle is a perfect example of cutting-edge Mexican high tech, it could
positively EAT a Vespa scooter in a drag race...as long as the Vespa had
both an Italian AND his two girlfriends on it. But, hey, feel free to buy
one of those Mexican engines. Buy some marshmallows to roast behind it,
too, those things make some nice flames...
You could also buy a proper BRITISH engine. Which will have been
hand-hewn from select aged oak from the Forest of Nottingham, by fine
Engelish Craahftsmen who have all served long apprenticeships and have
learned the secrets of unreliability that can only be passed down from
generation to generation and take several hundred years to fully mature,
like the grass in front of Bletchley Manor. No other nation has such a
hallowed tradition of creating machines that are backwards, finicky, and
require special Whitworth tools to repair. Jaguar has recently reached a
new level of acheivement, in having taken the BOTTOM THREE spots for
relaibility in the latest J.D. Powers and Associates survey of automobile
reliability. Three new models, the three top spots for unreliability.
There was a $2500 Pakistani-made two-stroke microcar with a plywood body
that placed higher than the three Jags. That's sad. But, hey, have at it,
mate!
Which brings us to fair Italy. Who invented pizza. You like pizza, right?
So, in the tradition of pizza, Maserati, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Ferrari,
DeTomaso, Macchi, Beretta, Da Vinchi, and all the other storied Italian
craftsmen, we bring you the Testarossa series of engines.
"Testarossa" means "redhead" in Italian. Have you ever met a redhead you
did not like? Except maybe Bobby Flay, but he's not Italian?
The answer is "no." Redheads are awesome.
And we offer four different ones:
The Kaiman:
http://easytigermodels.com/index.php...roducts_id=306
The Psycho:
http://easytigermodels.com/index.php...ge=product_inf
http://easytigermodels.com/index.php...index&cPath=38
There are a few different choices out there today if you are looking to get
a new turbine...they come from all over the place...but these are the only
ones that come from the True Home Of Performance...
ITALIA!
I mean, just say it to yourself: "ITALY!" ...immediately, your tongue
begins to salivate...not just because of the fresh mozzarella and the
canelloni, but because Italians make the MOST BEAUTIFUL, HIGHEST PERFORMING
MACHINES IN THE WORLD.'
Face it...no kid ever dreamt of having a freaking Dodge Stratus when they
grew up...the poster on the wall was of a Ferrari, Lamborghini, or Bugatti.
Even just typing those very names get the blood boiling, notice how your
computer runs a little faster with those words on the screen? It's
true...your computer WISHES it was made in Italy, instead of being some
drumpy product of Far Eastern drone-workers. If Bugatti made a computer,
you could bet it would be faster and more beautiful than any other, and for
sure, it would be a beautiful blue color, not some drab black plastic like a
common doorstop.
I mean, you can buy a turbine made in GERMANY, they are fine, in a
mundane, workaday kind of way, like a Mercedes, which is commonly used a a
TAXI in many countries...they are fine, reliable choices for colorless
middle-manager types that work for Mittelstand-type industrial machinery
corporations like Werner and Pfleiderer in Dusseldorf, who just want to go
back and forth to work to and from their cookie-cutter cement houses every
day, until they retire or go postal and take out the whole neighborhood...I
mean, that's fine, if that's all you want out of life, basic German-type
transportation and German-type style...when you say "style" and "German" in
the same sentence, that's like saying "love song" and "German" in the same
sentence, it just does not work..."ICH LIEBE DU" sounds like a gutteral
military command, like "THE PRISONERS ARE ESCAPING!"
Now try it in Italian:
Say "Amore." Now say "Italia." See how those words just flow together,
like champagne sipped from an expensive Ferragamo shoe, just slipped from
the foot of a nubile young Genoese Marquesa? And you are going to buy a
GERMAN engine over an ITALIAN?
Suit yourself...they are OK engines, those Cherman ones, until you need
service...I once had a Mercedes, when it went to the shop, it was always
seven-hundred-and-fifty dollars for an alternator bearing, and it had to be
special ordered from Aschwascher, Germany, and it took months. I swear, it
was the automotive equivalent of an upside-down mortgage, that car was worth
more dead as parts than alive as a car. Plus, my mechanic, who called
himself not a mechanic, but a SPECIALIST, whose name was ATTILA(no, really,
it was) put at least one of his kids through an expensive private college on
the bills for my car alone. But, hey, suit yourself, if you want to buy a
German engine. Don't blame ME if you get stuck in the mud just 18 miles
from Moscow...
You could also buy one of those new, cheap engines made in Taiwan.
Really exciting turn of a phrase, isin't it? "Made in Taiwan". Imagine a
whole army of faceless Taiwanese salarymen in identical cheap black business
suits, carrying identical cheap black vinyl briefcases, all marching in
formation towards a cold grey building full of cubicles, all droning "Made
in Taiwan...Made in Taiwan...Made in Taiwan" in unison.
And you are going to stick that in your lovely, lovely new jet?
Mmmmmmmmmmmkay!
Think about this...no kid ever said to his Father: "Say, Pop, can I
borrow your HYUNDAI to take Suzie to the prom, instead of my Ferarri? I
want to make a good impression on her!" So go ahead. Buy that Taiwanese
engine. People may laugh at you. Probably quietly, behind your back. You
may face some bemused, superior smiles from some owners of Fine Eyetalian
Machinery, as they called that stolen Maserati on "the Sopranos."
You might also buy a turbine made in Mexico. Mexico is well known for
making high performance machinery...such as...um...well...I think they still
make original Volkswagen Beetles there, right? I'm pretty sure. Might be
they stopped in the Nineties. I'd have to Google it up. Anyway, the 40hp
Beetle is a perfect example of cutting-edge Mexican high tech, it could
positively EAT a Vespa scooter in a drag race...as long as the Vespa had
both an Italian AND his two girlfriends on it. But, hey, feel free to buy
one of those Mexican engines. Buy some marshmallows to roast behind it,
too, those things make some nice flames...
You could also buy a proper BRITISH engine. Which will have been
hand-hewn from select aged oak from the Forest of Nottingham, by fine
Engelish Craahftsmen who have all served long apprenticeships and have
learned the secrets of unreliability that can only be passed down from
generation to generation and take several hundred years to fully mature,
like the grass in front of Bletchley Manor. No other nation has such a
hallowed tradition of creating machines that are backwards, finicky, and
require special Whitworth tools to repair. Jaguar has recently reached a
new level of acheivement, in having taken the BOTTOM THREE spots for
relaibility in the latest J.D. Powers and Associates survey of automobile
reliability. Three new models, the three top spots for unreliability.
There was a $2500 Pakistani-made two-stroke microcar with a plywood body
that placed higher than the three Jags. That's sad. But, hey, have at it,
mate!
Which brings us to fair Italy. Who invented pizza. You like pizza, right?
So, in the tradition of pizza, Maserati, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Ferrari,
DeTomaso, Macchi, Beretta, Da Vinchi, and all the other storied Italian
craftsmen, we bring you the Testarossa series of engines.
"Testarossa" means "redhead" in Italian. Have you ever met a redhead you
did not like? Except maybe Bobby Flay, but he's not Italian?
The answer is "no." Redheads are awesome.
And we offer four different ones:
The Kaiman:
http://easytigermodels.com/index.php...roducts_id=306
The Psycho:
http://easytigermodels.com/index.php...ge=product_inf
10-28-2011, 05:34 PM
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RE: ETM TURBINES
I was contacted by this company looking for us to take on the line and be a US based service center. They look to be quality engines but nothing really stood out to me screaming "there is a US market" for these? Nothing special on warranty, nothing special in performance, nothing special with price. When I questioned the manufacturer "what makes your engines stand out over the well established engine lines currently available in the USA?" he really didnt have an answer. I wish Curtis luck with them, perhaps he can prove me wrong.... I just didnt see there being much of market for them in the US.
10-28-2011, 06:15 PM
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The Kaiman 19 does seem to stand out in price and performance as opposed to anything else on the market that I know of. The biggest issue I see is a company that sells basically electrics selling turbines. However hopefully there will be some that get out in the 'field' soon and we can get some real world reports on them.
10-28-2011, 07:56 PM
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The Psycho motor is $2,195 for 22lbs of thrust. I can get a P-80SE for that same price. Why on earth would I choose this motor over the 80SE? There is absolutely no good reason to do so IMHO.
Now if that same motor was say $1,495 I would at least think about it.
S
Now if that same motor was say $1,495 I would at least think about it.
S
