Looking for the Engine God
 

Hello Fellows
Here's the deal, for the past year I have been flying a Super Kaos 60 and it is just an incredible plane to fly, and besides Iv done a lot of work on the engine as far as tweeking it and using a tuned pipe on it, But every once in a while someone will come out to the field and have this amazing ability to have a normal 40, 46 or in fact any engine to perform the incredible RPM's,,, now most of this people are older guys and all went to the school of hard kocks another words they have a lot of engine time, So what I'm looking for is some info on who would be a great person/or company or some books to read to really dig down deep and understand how to push these engines to there max RPM and perform like Iv scene them,,,, any info would be great. Thanks a lot fellows and I look forward in hearing from some of you.

Well-
 

Clarence Lee and Dub Jett for starters...

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Both of which have unfortunately not written books on engine tuning (allthough in the past 30 years there is a wealth of info in CL's "engine clinic" column in RCM, and Dubb has some good stuff on his website).

I recommend reading the control line speed and free flight columns in Model Aviation, and also anything on the net in regards to CL racing and speed. These are the guys that really know how to tune engines... :D

If guys like George Aldrich wrote down what they knew about engines befor ethey passed away, it would be priceless information for the rest of us "hack" tuners. But most do not and there are very few books around containing that info. Most (I do have a few) are old and hard to get, written in the heydays of modelling in the 50's and 60's.

Sometimes its fun just to buy a few of the same engines and " experiment" on them to see what works and what doesnt.

Andrew Coholic

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Clarence Lee did have some books, they were like an anthology series based on his Engine Clinic columns. There was a Vol. I, II, and III. I had Vol. III and it had enough port and pipe info in it to make your engines stand out from the stock crowd.

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Reworking engines is a great hobby all unto itself! You will be more successful and enjoy it more if you understand why you're doing a certain mod and the physics behind it.
I reccommend "Two Stroke Tuners Handbook" by Gordon Jennings. Probably the best Laymens one source info out there. It was slanted towards motorcycles but I've used the info on Glow Engines, Go Karts, Jetskis, Chainsaws, Snowmobiles and other 2 strokes. (same laws of physics)

If you really want the in-depth info; You can send off to S.A.E. for the Whitepapers that have been presented on high performance 2 cycle engine design. (about half of them were presented by Japanese Engineers working for Yamaha in the 60's)

What you can't buy but is important is a good log of all the pertinent info on all the two stroke engines you've modified. It should have; before and after performance, before and after port timing-compr. ratio- pipe dimensions and etc.

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Unfortunately the early volumes are not in print anymore. I have picked up a few on ebay in good used shape so if you see em' at a swap or on line grab them!

AJC