ORIGINAL: glasairdriver
I have been following this thread with great interest and appreciate all of the good work you guys have put into fine tuning the setup for this engine in a pattern plane. I have been flying an Oxalys 50 with a YS63 and would like to upgrade to a modern full size pattern plane with the SAP 180. What ARF is a good performer and would accept this engine and pipe?
Hmmmm!! There are a bunch of ARFs that you may use. Starting with the Focus that Bob Moulder, Dan (Gungadin), FlyEng, and some others are outfitting, this is a relatively inexpensive, great flying model. It will require some small changes to the tunnel to make the pipe fit but other than that, it should be straight forward. It requires some level of experience to fit a soft mount into the cowling too but Bob Moulder has a bunch of photos earlier in this thread showing exactly how he did it
There are much more expensive planes you could go with also such as the Prestige by WistModel, CARF Integral or Valiant, and pretty much any of the OXAI models (very expensive) can be used. There are also the CA Models Passport and ONAS and Visa. It really depends on your wallet size
I strongly recommend that you either have a soft mount made or build one yourself. I have written a tutorial on how to make these somewhere in these threads.