[NSRCA-discussion] Happy New Year

[Ron Van Putte]

I've been here cringing, waiting for John Fuqua to comment on my  
experience with the OPS Super 60.  So, I decided to write about it  
before he does.  Worst $#@! engine I ever had.  I couldn't get it to  
come up from idle.  Ended up putting a Super Tigre carburetor on it.   
Even so, it would quit going up from idle when the airplane was  
inverted.  It quit so many times on the low, inverted part of the  
Square Horizontal 8 that I developed a routine for it.  I'd 1/4 roll  
the airplane to knife edge and pull full up to get back to the  
runway.  That worked all the time until we were at a contest in Baton  
Rouge.  The engine quit as usual and, for some reason, instead of  
doing the 1/4 roll, I just pulled full up - straight into the  
ground!  There, now Fuqua can't bring it up.

Ron VP

On Jan 8, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Stuart Chale wrote:

> I had a couple of OPS super 60's and I think it had the same  
> throttle.  There was a small bellcrank attached to the carb to  
> transfer the fore and aft servo movement to side to side.  I still  
> have a few of the spinners for the motor.  The spinner back plate  
> replaced the drive washer on the engine.
> Stuart
>
> Martin X. Moleski, SJ wrote:
>> Mike Hester wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah I would LOVE to find a NIB OPS!!!! Those were some pretty
>>> under-rated engines.
>>
>> I have a NIB OPS .67 ducted fan engine on sale
>> for $105 (what I paid for it).
>>
>> Matching tuned pipe for $40.
>>
>> Plus shipping.
>>
>> It's not the OPS you're looking for, of course.
>>
>> I can put up pix and scan the instructions if
>> anyone is interested in this.
>>
>> It has the wierdest throttle I've ever seen.
>> It runs in and out rather than round and
>> round, if you know what I mean.  (I'm not
>> sure I even know what I mean.)
>>
>> Gold anodized head.
>>
>> The box calls it a 67 Super RCA.
>>
>> Rear induction, rear exhaust.
>>
>> Stock header.
>>
>> Looks like it has the number of the beast
>> on the backplate: 666?
>>
>> Parts list calls it an OPS 65 Speed.
>> Dated January 1981.
>>
>> AH.  A July, 1984, insert says:
>> "OPS 67 Super.  All 67 new parts
>> fit also 65 engines and vice versa."
>>
>> They want you to use 45% to 55% nitro fuel (!).
>>
>> Imported by Shamrock Competition Imports, Inc.
>> New Orleans.
>>
>> I bought this by accident in one of my earliest
>> forays into the internet.
>>
>>             Marty
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