ORIGINAL: Recycled Flyer

Iagree that spending the time and effort is a waste of time in a lot of cases but here we have an old side port design that is known to have a modest power output ( I don't think that 30% nitro would be a good test here anyway as that doesn't stress the compression enough,) and if you stick to this low expectation dictated by the design it may be OK.

Iam looking very suspiciously at the con rod though and wonder how the piston seal will hold up.

Its very telling that there is very little traffic about Gilbert diesels on the net, Ihave never heard or seen one - so I guess that some fliers have looked at it sideways before and passed it by.

The other thing is that the one piece glow heads may be hard to find and a diesel head would cure that issue once and for all!

Cheers.