graygoose

well i had my first flight with my new dl55 yesterday , mounted in a wildhare 88inch edge, had to move everything as far foward as possible and its slighty tail heavy, but the plane flew great, this engine has seen 2 tanks of fuel durring break in in the backyard,out of the box it started after prime , arrived lean on the high end,, lawnboy ashless at 32-1, tons on power great low idle, easy to start, turning a 22-8 nx, the only thing i noticed is the screws for the muffler seem alittle short.other than that it looks like a keeper, will try to post a few pic this weekend.

JoeAirPort

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If you're using the stock muffler it's an awefully light power plant. That's why it was so tail heavy. The BME 58 would be even more so but for much more money. Glad you like it.

thevirginian

graygoose,
do yourself and your new motor a favour and ditch the Lawnboy. Buy a bottle of Pennzoil 2-stroke for aircooled engines at local Autopart stores. Muc better oil to break in a new motor. That's everybodys opinion here on RCU.

JoeAirPort

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Good call. That's all I use in mine.

Moki 1.8

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I use the penzzoil also at 32:1 and it seems to be some really good stuff.

busted blade

Yep, meto

graygoose

will use the lawnboy in the weedwacker, pick me up some arnold p enzoil today, thanks for the info, cant imagine this plane at 16pound needing more power, bought the engine from southeastern engines for 349.00 shipped and cant wait for sunday to fly at sunrise.new plane , new motor, wish this could last forever..

xyzengine

DL is a great engine!Hope to see some pictures of flying.

Fly_Fly

Hello all, I have also had fantastic results with my DL-55. It sits up front of my Comp ARF Yak 55-SP, See it at:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRwgw78kuPc

This is out of the box and has not seen a screwdriver as yet......

Cheers Ivan..

By the way, Precision Aerobatics was a Pun for the way it fly's nothing to do with the Brand Name Precision Aerobatics...=)

RonMcCormick

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Ivan, Plane looks great Dl 55 seems to run well, I just ordered one today. How do you like the Comp ARF Yak ?

Fly_Fly

Hey Ron, Yes the DL-55 is a great motor, stats easy, runs like clock work with power to spare! I did have a couple of dead stick occasions that pvoves to be a tiny bit lean on the lower needle and was fixed without fuss.
The C-Arf Yak is the nicest airframe I have flown, and I have been in and out of the hobby since 1990. It weighs in at 7.815kgs but when its flying it feels light, it floats around without wanting to do nasty stalls or drop a wing
so landing this baby is very predictable. However if you want to push it, it will do pretty much anything you can dish out. I was warned by a couple of our club members that the 50cc sice Composite models were too heavy
But I watched a video of the Yak 2.1 flying on youtube and it did not look to fly like a brick as been discribed and the landing was nice and slow too. So I went ahead and purchased one and have not looked back. I now
get comments like, "wow, that fly's so nice !" and "That does everything effortlessly" !!, So, the only thing that troubles me is what the hell is my next project going to be Because I have now been spoilt and it will have to be somthing really
special to beat or even equal this Aircraft......
I currently flying a 2.2 metre Su-26 with a DL-50, a 1.8 metre Su-26 with a Zenoah 23cc and a 2.25 metre Yak 54 with a MT-62cc, all fly well but not as well as my Compy.

dubs1946

I have had a problem with the Chinese Spark plug do yourself a favour and throw it out and buy a decent one, great engine lousy plug.

Super08

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Ivan I had done the same as you. I stopped flying back in about '93 and got back into it Christmas of 07. In '93 my son came to live with me and I was doing the single dad thing and didn't have the time for it. After he got older I went out and got my pilots license in 98 and flew the real ones for a bit, but it got too costly. Then one day I was down in my shop looking up at a Super Sportster I had built back then and decided to get back into it. After thinking about it I couldn't believe 15 years had passed since I had last flew a model. Must say I am having the time of my life and the club we have up here has some great people in it. I just sold one of my DL50's in an Extra 300 to one of the guys and now I have him hooked on gas.