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Hi Bruce,

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5- Carburetor initially will be Walbro (pending final venturi size). We have a custom carby under design perhaps to debut next year. Joe is designing this in Oklahoma and it will be custom made to resolve the model engine troubles due to low air velocity (thus bad atomization).

6- Price: for the R9-200 we have 2 prices posted: with all external scale bolt down features (luky those buyers who pre-order, they will get the engines with all features) and without those features (about $400 less). Later the scale parts can be purchased and added. All the bolts come with the engine. Our engine will compete power wise with the Moki 250cc - this engine costs, without fuel pump, turbulator (fuel atomization), how much???
Our engine comes with supercharger for fuel atomization, electric fuel pump and 2 years warranty BOTH engine and cdi ignition. Our cdi ignition has built-in Kill Switch, RPMcable out, multi-spark discharge for smooth start/low RPM's operation. EACH spark puts out 20,000V with 25 mJ (flat constant, from start to 6,500 RPM) to punch harder through dirt/oil for longer spark plug duration. And it draws only 2,9 Amps/hour with a 7,2V (2-cell, 5,000 Amps battery is recommended). Keep adding........
Yes, our R9-200cc engine with 9 cylinders WITHOUT external scale features with all above computed, is about the same cost as the Moki 250 with 5 cylinders. And the complete engine with all scale parts on it is only about $550 more. BUT the Retail price PER CYLINDER of our engine is about $500 and the Moki 250 around $880 (with all above needed accessoris included). Even the Seidel/Evolution 260cc with 7 cylinders is about $457/cylinder.
Our engine can be more expensive TOTAL price, but in fact we have the lowest Retail cost of any brand out there for this model engines if you put all dots together !!!. And our engines are ALL CNC machined from solid bar, NOT castings. Tooling costs alone have so far exceeded $80,000 ONLY for this engine. Our engines do not looke like had small pox as casting parts look like. Most external parts are anodized.
All tubes are SS 304 and our collector ring is the ONLY scale, that is tapered, EVER created for commercial model engine production. It takes 14 jigs to get all the tubes in place and it comes with a 1/8" oil nipple standard.
Plus, we will add the electric starter and possible the onboard generator late this Summer (optional items - the mounts come with the engine).
Keep adding please........our engine is expensive?? How come Moki has been selling well all this years? And Seidel/Evolution sell?? And Valach?

Depending on sales, and this is VERY relative, we could see prices being reduced. But it requires higher cycling of the CNC shops - that means from our side higher sales. That is why we have, after the R9-200 engine a pressing desire to launch the 8 Single piston engines under design and may introduce the Boxers (Flats) before the V-12 (so far, the V-12 is still ahead....).
Again, this is relative. It takes 1 hour to machine 1 cylinder head, 1 hour per cranshaft, 2 hours for the nose cone alone, 40 minutes for the rear Intake/Mount......and each VMC 5-axis machine costs upwards $180,000 and a Turning center 4-axis about $150,000 Where is the money for all this coming from??? But the volume of sales of Single piston engines world wide is large.
Now you see why we use common parts design approach where in EACH scale 99% of all parts are common and the Singles borrow 85% of the radials.......

There is another way: if you sell your used Moki or Seidel on E-Bay, you will only need half of the money to purchase a complete R9-200 engine from us, the basic one without external parts. Next year, you add the scale parts as a birthday present. "La patrona" will not mind this approach.......
The initial market, very clear after our trip to Germany for the Prowing International, probably will be 150 units/year for the R9-200cc alone. We have 38 pre-orders as per my partner David whom handles engine assembly & customer service from our shop in Alabama. I am located in Maryland and handle the engineering/development/manufacturing contracting (and now this Forum...).

6- Notice I mentioned above a 37% scale radial engine. Yes, we have added the 100cc cylinder to the P&W line of engines, and that will come to 37% (this always represents the OD of the engine compared to the original that pretends to mimic).
The 37% scale will be made in R5-510cc, R7-735cc, R9-950cc only. The OD for the R9-950cc, will be about 486 mm and about 76 HP minimum.
We have also revised the water-cooled V-12 Merlin II. Although the external dimentions remain at 1/5 scale (153mm wide), the Stroke went up to 38mm, thus BxS = 29 x 38 This equates 301cc = 18,3 cu in. This is now the final displacement of this engine. Hopefully next Summer will be barking. With 25cc/cylinder, the following water-cooled engines V8, Inline 6 and 4 will benefict a lot (these will be "cut" from the V-12, with the V-8 getting a 90 degrees bank to mimic the Hispano-Suiza).
We also closed on the choice for the Boxer (Flats) engines. It is the Continental engine with its cute crankcase. We will offer an optional supercharger with EFI system (electronic fuel injection). With this said, our supercharger design has been chosen as well.
We are also working already on a second generation of cdi units, designed here in the USA as well (like the first generation, but using ONLY 1 magnet and 1 Hall sensor for all engines up to 28 cylinders).
And scale planes: we have initiated the process to get them out. The first planes will be 1/3 scale FW-190 and Me-109 followed by 28% Corsair and 1/3 scale Macchie MC-200. We are still looking at the 1/3 scale Corsair as well. But most of all, we think production will be totally in Alabama, in our shop.

We have not yet started the design of the jet turbines, but upfront we will reduce the fuel consumption by a conservative 40-50% per designated thrust.
We negotiated exclusivity from Pratt & Whitney to use their name. We hope the development of the turbines will start on the last quarter 2013

7- Website: it is vastelly outdated. Needs a clean up, but we will find time to do it soon...

8- Newsletter: for those whom want to be updated about the engines developments/release for sale, send me an E-mail. We are putting a Newsletter together that it will go out soon. Periodically we will send updates of any new product or to come or modifications, etc....

9- Sorry my typing....it is only 2 fingers. Keep in touch folks and thank you for posting. Thank you Bruce - keep in touch.

Antonio Silva , president Authentic Scale