ORIGINAL: n001pa
I have a Rascal 110 that I have been trying to decide what engine to use. I like the fact that you didn't have to cut the cowl but I weld to make my own muffler. Can you let us know exactly how you made the muffler so that maybe I can get a friend to help me with the welding.
I can't wait to get mine in the air.
I think I'm replying to an old message here, but I've flown the Rascal 110 with both an OS 1.60FX and a Zenoah G26. Both are very nice engines for this airplane. I used an 18x8 prop on both engines. The OS 1.60FX (2-stroke glow) turned the prop at about 10,000 rpm, the Zenoah maxes out at about 7000 rpm. Thus the OS engine gave *much* nicer vertical performance and we clocked the rascal at 102mph on a down wind pass (probaby 85-90mph in still air.) But it slows *way* down for landing. It has a tremendous speed range if you put a lot of power up front. The Zenoah also gives plenty of power, but top end speed is lower of course and vertical performance isn't as spectacular, but it's gas with all the advantages that go along with it.
Something like an OS1.60FX will give you spectacular performance. Something like the Zenoah will give you a really nice all around relaxing flyer.
I think you could load this up to 20 lbs total weight and it would still be a total floater. We have maybe 2 lbs of extra stuff in ours and had an engine die on us at about 1000' AGL. It took a *long* time to glide down and I ended up doing some side slips to bleed off altitude towards the end so I could get her down on the ground.
My personal opinion is that the Rascal 110 is a wonderful, wonderful airplane. (Of course I've never met an airplane I didn't like!)
Curt.