If I can jump into this thread please? I thought I would share a few experiences with my Mintor 22. I was looking around for a model to install it in and decided on the Revolver 70 as I had seen it on Youtube with a DLE 20 in it. I have always found the Mintor incredibly reliable, so no fear of dead-sticks on a new plane. I decided to install a cannister onto it with a s/s header. Anyway I put the thing together with the cannister mounted along the side of the fuse. Then I put it on the Cof G balancer to find that it needed 275g of weight in the tail end!

[I have found a neat way of manging my lead weight. I use old CF wing tube sections set in a hardwood block and pour the melted lead into this. I have different sizes of plugs so when it comes to balancing, I then mount a CF tube filled with the correct weight of plugs in the rear of the fuse.]

So having got it all set up then off to the flying field. Engine sounding great through the cannister ( a nice deep throaty sound)...and more than enough power!... I trimmed it for level flight - no issues there. So then I put it through some gentle aerobatics. I quickly realised to my horror that I had truly compromised what others say is a very nice sport aerobatic plane. It exhibited viscious tip stalling and spinning out of both outside and inside loops...
...only later did I read about the gyroscopic forces of all that weight in the tail...so despite having managed to fit this lovely engine into the beautiful airfarme, I realised the error of my ways! Over the last week, I have removed the engine and tail weight (1.9kg!!) and put in an electric 6 cell 5000mAh set up, turning a 17x8 beechwood prop (1.2kg). It flys beautfully....so the question now remains...what do I put my Minitor into, so I can get my fix of that throaty sound once again?