engine installation
 

I have a Top Flite Corsair, that I want to mount a Zenoah G20ei on. The firewall appears to be perfectly flat with no down/right thrust built in. Does anyone know a place to by a mount that will do this for me, so the correct angle will there when I install the engine? Thanks for any help.

RE: engine installation
 

I just used fender washers from the hardware store under the mounting bolts to change my thrust line

RE: engine installation
 

BigHog

The proper right and downthrust has already been incorporated into the firewall.

Take a straight edge and align it from the rudder to the center point of the firewall.

Then take a 90 degree angle and align it to that and the firewall and you'll see that it has more redily.

It's only about 2 degrees or so, so it can be easily overlooked.

Quoting Top Flite themselves:

"Typical fuselage construction with 3/32" balsa sheeting. You can easily see the right thrust built into the firewall. Fuselage is built with the upper half constructed over the full-size plan"

RE: engine installation
 

Did TF always build it into the firewalls? I suspect this was originally an older red box kit. Thanks for the help.

RE: engine installation
 

No, it's only on the most recent Gold Edition. One the previous Gold Edition and the older kits, there was no right-thrust built in.

RE: engine installation
 

take a pic and post it in the warbirds section there is a huge volume of information on the TF corsair including build threads,mods.and flight video, including information on installing a G-20 in the airframe.
BTW if its a older red box then a small 60 size engine is plenty of HP to fly it a G-20 would probably shake it apart, besides having half the engine hanging out of the cowl.

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Thanks guys! I will take a picture, and post in Warbirds forum.