[NSRCA-discussion] Happy New Year

[Stuart Chale]

I loved the super 60's Had them in my XLT's no complaints from me :)
Stuart C.

Ron Van Putte wrote:
> 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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