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Old 06-29-2011, 10:15 PM
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Default RE: EME 55 DLE's new Cousin?

Well now lets just see about copycats....
The first 3W 60cc single looked like a G62 with a poorly cast crankcase that had lugs that easily broke off in a crash...
The first 3W 70 opposed twin I ever saw was sent to me by Wendel Hostetler for conversion to my ignition...The 3W ignition was a complete disaster, had spark coils in the middle of the spark plug wires..Looked like an Ostrich that swallowed an orange...
The DA 50 a cantilever crank..Can anyone show me a 3W 50 with a cantilever crank ? A&M had cantilever cranks in the late 80s...
All you conspiracy theorists make me laugh.. Bill Carpenter and I were making the best ignitions in the late 80s...I wonder where DA and 3w got their ideas ??
There is nothing new under the sun, this stuff has been around in various forms since the first model airplane engines many years ago...
A company called GEN Engineering was showing a 124 cc opposed twin made from 2 G62s at Oshkosh way back before most of the big companies had opposed twins...I guess DA and 3w copied those engines...