Hi all -
I received my *Bay buy yesterday,
I disassembled it, gave it a good cleaning and everything looked ok (after I put the piston in the
right way!), oiled it up a bit and admired it.
This morning, couldn't stand it, so I installed a 9x6 APC and mounted it on the bench.
Not having any FAI fuel, I used 9% nitro doctored to ~26% (10% castor) oil.
Several drops of prime, a couple flips, connect the battery, 2-3 flips.........it fired off the prime.
I was so amazed that I did that a few more times and it started every time with 2-3 flips.
I hooked up a tank and fired it a few times to get a running needle setting.
At about 3 turns on the needle it was sounding pretty good, so I tached it.
With no further tweaking, it was bumping 10K!
I doubled and tripled check that, then pinched it off.
Now, I think that's pretty good for a wimpy '54ish cross-scavenged O&R .23 and I have no desire to damage it - I
LIKE it!
While waiting for the auction to end, I Googled everything I could find on O&Rs and a repeated comment was about cylinders blowing off.
An early undated review on the "new" .23 FRV, without fuel/prop details, noted 8900 with a 9x6.
So my question (after the race, of course
) for those of you familiar with O&Rs is, are they so fragile that 9% is a real risk?
Terry