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Forum: Engine Conversions
10-20-2005, 09:12 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,967
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: Conversion

Those echos are good engines, (Koritz)I have, what I remember being the 42cc version of that one, turns a 20-8, and 18-10 at 8000 with the standard mag ignition advanced 4 degrees, different...
Forum: Engine Conversions
10-10-2005, 12:12 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,864
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: Flywheel -is this safe?

I would run it up from afar! I have been hit by flying parts, watched the doctors stuff the meat back in my arm, and sew it up when I was twelve years old, yep from a flywheel. Good luck. SS
Forum: Engine Conversions
08-10-2005, 05:02 PM
Replies: 158
Views: 85,295
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: turbocharged 25cc homelite whipper snipper

There always has to be a first one. I wonder how many people were shocked in 1903? And a word to Tim N, if your gona run that thing without a load on it, better wear your flack jacket, I...
Forum: Engine Conversions
08-10-2005, 10:30 AM
Replies: 158
Views: 85,295
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: turbocharged 25cc homelite whipper snipper

It takes very little change in anything to make rpm differance in a engine that has no load on it. SS
Forum: Engine Conversions
07-30-2005, 04:38 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,150
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: Adjustable timing on gasser

Well like your race gas, I like the methonal for the fact that we usually have at least a drum for the car, but if you are trying to use a smoke system, might not work, lot less heat. I really...
Forum: Engine Conversions
07-30-2005, 11:38 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,150
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: Adjustable timing on gasser

Look at this thread: http://spadworld.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10569

I didn't post the results of the methonal fuel, and now I can't find the numbers, I do remember when I mixed the...
Forum: Engine Conversions
07-30-2005, 11:25 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,199
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: partner 72cc

I've done several like that, Mac's and Echo's, I left part of the case on the rear of it to put 1/2 inch thick vibration isolators on it, this worked out great, little heavier than it could have...
Forum: Engine Conversions
07-26-2005, 06:50 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 5,465
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: I got a crazy idea

I think it was a YS61, and it had trouble ideling, and only screamed for about 3 minutes, and surprisingly quite! There was also a guy who made one and it was in an artical in a hobby mag some years...
Forum: Engine Conversions
07-26-2005, 10:11 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 5,465
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: I got a crazy idea

First off, a Detroit has exhaust valves and intake ports in the liner, and a Detroit is not super charged, it has a blower on it. And yes, you can super charge, or turbocharge a 2 stroke, going to...
Forum: Gas Engines
07-22-2005, 09:45 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 783
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: gas pump or oil pump

I do it with the same pump, just a hose worth of gas is not going to matter. SS
Forum: Engine Conversions
07-17-2005, 10:21 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,421
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: Tightening down a Wacker Engines Prop Adapter?

Or, one way to make it without welding, use a piece of tubing that slides over the adapter, cut it longer than the adapter, drill the same size hole as the hole in the adapter for a pin, then drill a...
Forum: Engine Conversions
07-17-2005, 10:09 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,421
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: Tightening down a Wacker Engines Prop Adapter?

You can drill a hole in it to insert a piece of large music wire in to tighten it, or make a wrench with a steel rod that fits in the hole and the wrench touches 180degrees from the hole. Steve
Forum: Gas Engines
07-13-2005, 08:55 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 907
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: Smoke Muffler

If you put alum tubing inside of the muffler, it will get torched, and you will have little alum balls coming out and possibly backing up into your exhaust port. I made my smoke muffler, 41cc echo...
Forum: Engine Conversions
07-01-2005, 11:41 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 807
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: Husky Cases

My echo saw that I converted, the bar mount, oil resesoir, etc was all part of the engine, I cut off all of the oil tank, and pieces that was unessesary, used the rear of the engine, were the saw...
Forum: Engine Conversions
07-01-2005, 11:27 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,038
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: Is this repairable?

Most of the engine blocks from the weedies and chainsaws you cannot weld, I have tried it, and it looks good, untill you tap on it, then what ever you welded onto it falls off, LOL. Get another...
Forum: Gas Engines
06-30-2005, 08:59 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,076
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: G38 Coil High Tension wire

warm it up a little with a heat gun before trying to pull it out. SS
Forum: Engine Conversions
06-27-2005, 03:25 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 831
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: Stihl weedwacker conversion.

I have a 50cc Mac conversion, has mag type ignition with points on it, It will only hand start with the jug on the bottom, I have never been able to start that one upright without the starter, but...
Forum: Engine Conversions
06-27-2005, 11:48 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 3,271
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: Reed valve success!!!

You know that A/C compressors have reed valves in them. You may be able to find an old compressor and take it apart, and make one from the valve set up in these. Steve
Forum: Engine Conversions
06-21-2005, 08:45 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,135
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: are velocity stacks necessary?

The simple velosity stack that I made for my Koritz, 40 cc, put 100 rpms extra on it. STeve
Forum: Gas Engines
06-17-2005, 10:00 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 7,802
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: Compression Testing a 50cc engine ?

Has anyone ever used a leak down tester on their 2 cycle engines? A friend of mine bought her husband a chainsaw from the pawn shop the other day and asked me to check it out for her. Pulled...
Forum: Gas Engines
06-16-2005, 08:39 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 7,802
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: Compression Testing a 50cc engine ?

The compression readings will vary with rpm changes, ie: battery condition with electric starter. STeve
Forum: Engine Conversions
06-13-2005, 06:53 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 958
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: Echo Kioritz crank thread size

If its like the koritz I have, echo chain saw engine, it is 5/16. Steve
Forum: Engine Conversions
06-07-2005, 08:18 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 3,070
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: 41cc Echo

It wont' run the opposite direction unless you retime the flywheel. I did the same thing with a blower motor, was trying to start it backwards while having it mounted inverted, got gas on top the...
Forum: Engine Conversions
06-01-2005, 09:14 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 3,070
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: 41cc Echo

I have a 40cc echo chainsaw engine, I think it is differant from the blower engines, this engine is a Koritz. It will turn a 20-10 at 7000, and it turned the 18-10 at 7800 before I advanced the...
Forum: Gas Engines
04-25-2005, 10:39 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 2,914
Posted By Steve Sanford

RE: Welding headers

When I make headers, (race cars, planes, rc planes, etc) I tig the tubes together with a mild steel filler, but when you attach them to the flanges, I use silicone bronze. You could acetelene...
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