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Engine basics => Engine set up tips => Topic started by: Russell Shaffer on April 08, 2006, 06:54:43 PM

Title: OK Cub
Post by: Russell Shaffer on April 08, 2006, 06:54:43 PM

Anyone know anything about the new Cubs?  How does a new Cub compare to a Babe Bee?  They are pretty inexpensive and they look like an old engine.  I just wonder about the power output. 

Title: Re: OK Cub
Post by: L0U CRANE on April 12, 2006, 02:24:47 PM

Russell,

I don't think they are new manufactured engines. When Herkimer-OK shut down many years ago, there were a few cubic miles of spare parts left. I think all the Cub 1/2As we're seeing are assembled out of those parts.

Power? Not bad by 1952 standards. Not real bad today, against ordinary reed valve Cox engines. The Cubs might even be a bit faster than a typicall Babe Bee.

A guy who goes as DesignMan on other sites knows a lot more about both. If he shows up in here, hit him for more detail?