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Yes sir, the .82 is fine, I was waiting for a gasket set for the rocker covers. I might get to run it today. I am nearly out of wood so I need to cut up a bunch and split it. The .82 has some fierce compression, the valve lash was too tight and castor/carbon built up on the exhaust valve seating surface so the exhaust had a slow leak. When I put oil in the exhaust port you could see bubbles rise during the compression stroke. I'll get it back to you as soon as possible. If you folks are interested, Back Order stuff seems to be coming to Horizon this month. I have the valves set to the Saito gauge setting. If you want them tighter I can do that but I don't like to.
absolutely no hurry, when you get done is just fine. i was just curious.
Also the information i get i can use it towards the other 4 i have.
The dude that gave theme up is going to be so jealous of how well those engines run it will be funny.
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Here it is, I put a new metal back plate on that I had in a box of Saito, (stuff) I'll send the plastic one also.
I received the Bush Hawk kit, what a nice kit, everything about it exudes quality.
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Sr, no biggy, I actually wanted the 115, but the price stopped me, and now knowing that the 125 is too much of a tight fit for my P-40's Cowl, I know I should have bit the bullet and bought one,,,,,, aa, you win/you loose,,
as for my post^, was just wanting to hear that good come-back that I know is coming from OF
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as for my post^, was just wanting to hear that good come-back that I know is coming from OF
Jim
Saito is abandoning the Glow engines in favor of the FG line. They now market very few glow fuel engines that don't have an FG counterpart. The FA-100 and FA-150 are the only glow fuel single cylinder engines in their current lineup that don't have gas counterparts.
Also, according to the Saito specifications page Specifications the difference in weight between the FA-100 and FA-115 is only 36 grams which comes to 1.3 oz, NOT 2.39 oz.
Manufacturers often skew specifications to favor products that yield more profit. Case in point? General motors listed MPG figures as the same for manual and automatic transmissions for their 4 cylinder cars in 2007. This was with their pathetic 3 and 4 speed automatics. When the fuel crisis reared its head, in a mater of days they came out with "new technology" that improved the fuel economy of the manual equipped cars by 4 MPG. General Motors can't make a decision on a new coffee pot for the executive lounge in 3 days let alone "new technology".
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For the life of me, I don't understand why we didn't go metric in the early 1970s like we were supposed to. We were learning the system in high school. The whole civilized word did it. The United States, Liberia and Myanmar still use Imperial unit of measure, that's it.
Pete & Dave- here's something you probably won't see anywhere else, I don't think. I've seen Cub short landing and takeoff contests, but this is the all time winner: https://www.chonday.com/23846/bushals5/
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I got an email from Hobbico today announcing the Horizon buy out and on their privacy policy giving me the right to opt out from my conact information going over to Horizon.
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I'm highly skeptical of the full context of your quotes there, Dan. One thing is certain; around here you are making a big mistake if you think any female (or male) is unarmed. It's often surprising when I hear of how many cute little things, young and old, are toting and have spent a lot of time being taught at the firing ranges. I think the top 2 places women most fear to be unarmed are at church or in a movie theater. Anyway, Alabama is a carry state probably moreso than any other state and we have the politicians to back it up.
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I'm highly skeptical of the full context of your quotes there, Dan. One thing is certain; around here you are making a big mistake if you think any female (or male) is unarmed. It's often surprising when I hear of how many cute little things, young and old, are toting and have spent a lot of time being taught at the firing ranges. I think the top 2 places women most fear to be unarmed are at church or in a movie theater. Anyway, Alabama is a carry state probably moreso than any other state and we have the politicians to back it up.
Deerfield bans assault weapons and high-capacity magazines - Deerfield Review
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Well, if it's good enough to get us to the moon and back I'm not going to complain. https://www.chonday.com/23846/bushals5/
Haven't you seen the U-Haul rates for leaving California? They're 3 times higher than hauling to California because so many people are leaving and renting U-Hauls for one way trips. Nobody wants to move there.
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The 1.25 intake pipe measures 10.5 mm at the bottom and 11mm at the top
The 1.00 intake pipe measures 10 mm at the bottom and 10.5 mm at the top. I measured around the circumference to make sure the curve was not causing the difference. They are both straight at that point. Interesting.
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831 is a carburetor body only.
The FA-100 and FA-115 both use the SAI100821 carburetor. To my mind, this is odd since the 115 has the same bore (and valves) as the 125 and bore size is supposedly how Saito sizes the carburetor ventouri.
The SAI100831 part is at the top of the FA-100 parts page and it is indeed a carburetor body only.. If you scroll down, you will find the SAI100821 carburetor.
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https://www.horizonhobby.com/intake-...l--am-sai11569
According to this archived page found on Googly the 1.15 has it's own intake pipe.
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If you scroll down, you will find the SAI100821 carburetor.
Do i need to dig them out and Measure them both or all three
see, even you guys can't leave anything alone LOL
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I see, my bad on that one
well if you do please just measure the OD, no need to take them apart. the 100 and 115 should have the same OD (same Carb), so if you have a 125 check the 125 and 115, and One would think the 125's would be naturally larger, ether way One would have to wonder if the 115 would benefit some from a slightly larger Carb
see, even you guys can't leave anything alone LOL
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well if you do please just measure the OD, no need to take them apart. the 100 and 115 should have the same OD (same Carb), so if you have a 125 check the 125 and 115, and One would think the 125's would be naturally larger, ether way One would have to wonder if the 115 would benefit some from a slightly larger Carb
see, even you guys can't leave anything alone LOL
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There's no way that you could get optimum performance from the 115 with the smaller 100 carburetor which should be optimized to the FA-91 sized bore and smaller valves of the FA-100.
If the FA-125 manifold is the same O.D. at the head interface, it could be shortened on the bottom to allow an FA-125 carburetor to be used on the FA-115.
Even if it isn't the same O.D at the head, a tapered manifold design gradually reducing diameter towards the port end from the larger FA-125 venturi might achieve some insane port velocity.
I did something similar with the 12 mm Big Bore FA-220 carburetor on the 12.7:1 high compression FA-180 and gained about 200 RPM on top of the additional gains from higher compression..
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https://www.horizonhobby.com/intake-...l--am-sai11569
According to this archived page found on Googly the 1.15 has it's own intake pipe.
BTW; If you look closely, you'll notice that both of those pictures are of the same manifold.. Either that or they got awfully lucky with the lighting.
I can take the cowl off this and LOOK at the inlet pipe but if nobody else has an fa115 to measure it would mean removing the engine to remove the inlet pipe and measure it,it's hard up against the firewall
Sr you mean they phased out horses and oxen for farming over your way? just kidding,seriously i thought you bought an fa115 a while back.
Okc your comments about horizon are timely,i believe a gungho mark zuckerman is about to have that strongly suggested to him in court.If you download an uber taxi app so you can book a private car here you must agree to give them access to all your mobile phone data before the app will upload to your phone,then you can use the service.I've long believed that the data they mine for sale makes the revenue from their taxi service look like peanuts...and we're the chumps
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The fact is, I have an FA-115 and I just measured the manifold. It appears to be the same O.D. at the top and bottom as the FA-100 manifold.