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Engine basics => Engine set up tips => Topic started by: Steve Kientz on April 11, 2007, 10:54:51 AM

Title: R/C car engines
Post by: Steve Kientz on April 11, 2007, 10:54:51 AM

  Has anyone tried to use an R/c car engine in an airplane? they seem to have good output,but with the short shaft was wonderring if anyone had fooled with them?

Title: Re: R/C car engines
Post by: peabody on April 11, 2007, 03:16:39 PM

The racers do....they are powerhouses....
Stunt guys don't need that kind of power.....

Title: Re: R/C car engines
Post by: Joe Messinger on April 11, 2007, 04:29:47 PM

That power in the RC car engines comes at very high rpms. 20,000 plus.  Akin to combat engines but much heavier.

Joe

Title: Re: R/C car engines
Post by: Mike Greb on April 12, 2007, 08:39:27 PM

Most RC car engines have pipe timing and are pretty much useless for open faced control line racing events

Title: Re: R/C car engines
Post by: Jim West on February 19, 2010, 01:16:38 PM

I have converted a TT .12 engine to aircraft use with a sprinkler venturi. It turns up 18K on a MAS 7x4. It will never turn up to 29K with a prop. The prop is a higher rotating mass than a flywheel. It is a hoot in a Jr Satan Combat wing.