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Old 06-08-2009 | 08:14 AM
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Default RE: Is An OS 55AX The Right Engine?


ORIGINAL: asmund

If you go for a 91 then you really don`t need to use a big pipe because you already have more than enough power, just boltthe engineon and go.
Oh I know. I just love the sound a motor makes on a pipe. Besides, this thread is about gluttonous excess! In my limiited experience with the SuperTigre quiet muffler, there is significant power to be had just bolting on an untuned pipe and "stupid" power with a little tuning. Plus the pipe and header are just a itty bit lighter than the stock exhaust.

I plan to buy the plane in a week or two and the motor a couple of weeks after that and then I'll start a build thread in the ARFsection and solicit advice on reenforcing the airframe for the "Gluttonous Excess" I'll be subjecting it to - which is what I will probably title the thread! So all you "underpowered cub" fliers can follow me to that forum and continue the lambastation there!

I'd like to put some Hitech HS225-MG servos in the wings if they would work (flaps/ailerons) without killing them. Otherwise, I'll put some HS-5485HB in it. The 225s would save me a couple of ounces that Ineed to recover with an 8 ounce heavier motor. I may even put an A123 battery in it to save more weight.