Kiwi

That was our shade next that Duke lived under.

Yea the baldie was not much good for AMA fast, My problem was one good run and they were shot! They did make a fantastically fast slow rat engine with a 9X8 TF PP run a click rich.
I kinda hurt Dukes feelings with my comments on the Baldie and he confessed to me that he really didn't understand what was going on with the Schnurel porting.
I was running a K&B 6.5 in Rat and had done some reshearch and some talking with
John B at K&B and had some ideas.

The front and rear port passage angle was my idea and the case finish I had told him it would look nice if he could simulate the Magnesium look of formula car castings in aluminum.
Once he grasped the porting his main concern was that the casting/machining of the angled ports were going to run the cost to high for real world combat fliers.
THEN he said
"David, I see how to do the ports"
How?
" Top secret and not going to tell you"
Please?
" No, you will see in a few months"
Well the idea he had was the tall 6 bolt back plate!
Killer engine.
The cranks that broke at the back of the thrust washer was due to no radius on back of thrust washer to match the radius on the crank and the washer would cut into the crank radius causing a stress riser.

The bushing .36-what can you say?
The only good one I saw was hand built by Duke For Tommy(one of out team) and ran great..........as long as Duke started and needled it!

I had a case of Baldies and bushed .36 that I stored in a 5 gallon bucket of oil and they developed some kind of black oxidation and are now maybe good for parts.
THESE WERE NEW ENGINES!

I do have some stock of Fox and ST and other parts plus the oil ruined engines so let me know what you need.

Dad tried to convince me to try the K&B stallion as it was basically a Green Head.
Just didn't sound like it was worth the trouble to me.
He was happy with the ST .35C

The OS .35 I used were the stunt engine-massaged of course.

Few pics of some old combat engines and even a Fox Rocket (similar to .36X)

David