[Cruiser]

Pete, This motor is not ready to run yet, anyway not this life ! It should be ready to run in a week or two. The carb setting is really easy, a little unerving, but easy. It is NOT an acrobatic plane at all. The P-51 had a few bad characteristics when going fast and put into an attitude. It is just for hauling balls and turning left ! It will perform more like a pattern plane at speed. The plane is going to be some months away before it is ready to fly, but the motor will be ready ! This thing has been a major head ache to me since I started it, I threw away 6 cases, these cases are not perfect as far as outer cosmetics, but the internals turned out beautyful ! The motor turns over very smoothly and will fire @ 180 deg for a smooth power pulse. I still need to make a couple of small mounts, and a couple of slots in the rear of the case for the hall sensors, but that will be next week after the new sensors come in from CH ignitions. We have the ignition modules, but also ordered some timing advance modules to add in that will eliminate the need for mechanical advancing linked to the throttles. Before the throttles were at a weird angle and it made for a god awful arangement to work both throttles and the advance in unison, This time it will be a piece of cake.
I designed the cases and all the work to the cranks, hubs etc. and did the work here in my shop. I had promised this motor to my very good long time buddy and finally feel that I have made good my promise. I payed for the materials, tooling, etc. and got the eng to this point, and He has been building the plane. It is a joint effort but it is his plane and eng as far as I'm concerned. I didn't keep track of the hours, matr'l, tools, etc. but I would imagine that this motor is worth more than a complete loco fool would pay ! OH NO ! that means I'm a complete loco fool !