MAX!!!

Good to hear from you again. Total agreement on the castor oil.

Everything of mine runs on castor oiled fuel, including the four strokes. I'd rather clean the oil off the planes than replace an engine after a lean run.

And castor is all but absolutely required for the plain bearing engines.

The K&B engines? In the last four weeks I've bought over a dozen more. All 40 and 61 ball bearing engines, though, no Sportsters.

My only Sportster was a 65, a good reliable engine, but I expected more speed than it gave me, replaced it with a 61 and gave the Sportster to my son. It's still flying on a Tiger 60, and flying very well. With castor oil.

The hot 40s and 61s, the ones with the BIG Perry carbs and pumps built in, are still available, and often available new. Two of the engines I just bought were brand new pumpers. One was an 8360, the Q40 "Pylon" racing engine, the other was a 6560. And the 61, the 6560, cost less than 1/2 the retail price for the 61 without the Perry carb and pump.

Watch for them on the for sale listings.

And most parts are still available with no problem from MECoA.

Bill.