ORIGINAL: benr1014
Hey Guys,
I converted my FA-125A Saito to gas one year ago.
The oil gas mixture I used is 1:25 (synthetic oil).
It has burned about 20 litres gas now, and there was a lot of carbon in exhaust pipe and outlet valve.
The ignition is a "Runtronic mini" it has a weight of 50g + 1 Lipo cell 800mAh.
The engine mount was a square block of aluminium which I milled down to 58g.
It replaces the rear cover of the crankcase.
Fuel tank is 150ml. All over wheigt of plane is 3.9Kg.
Hey benr1014,
Congrats on your conversion! Hopefully Saito will get theirs worked out too! I know there's a lot of us scale flyers that would love to see this happen.
I, and others too I'm sure, would like to know more about your experience with your Saito 125 conversion to gas.
Would you mind answering a few questions for us?
Did you break your engine in on the synthetic oil, and at the same 1:25 ratio?
How have you dealt with the carbon build up? Would a product like Sea Foam help in keeping down the carbon build-up?
Are the parts to your conversion readily available, so that we could try your conversion on other engines? What kind of cost are we talking about?
And lastly, that's a very cool engine mount you fabricated, would you be interested in making a couple for me?
Thanks, J.