The official Riff-Raff thread (never ending engine thread, East/West)

[JDaly]

Hey guys... Jim (the world's biggest DA Fanboy) is flirting with the idea of getting a GP.

Please help him out and convince him to buy a DA. GP is too low-shelf for Jim.

POT calling the KETTLE black you BIGGER GP FanBoy.

Fortunately for me some of the WC are watching out for me and "ATTEMPTING" to do just that!

Hmmmmm WEIRD an EM Member gets MORE support from the WC then his own EM Friends(?)!

[jeweler]

Jim, I have a B.Bird servo I'll sell you as well....we'll call it a shelf-less transaction!!

[tbrum]

Good news!! Glad you may get a DA. It is the ONLY way you should roll, LOL.

See - I'm helping you not make a mistake

[JDaly]

Good news!! Glad you may get a DA. It is the ONLY way you should roll, LOL.

See - I'm helping you not make a mistake

Ya IF I went GP there wouldn't be anything more to raz me about and our daily email chains would dry up from 200-300 to about 2 or 3!

[tbrum]

Ya IF I went GP there wouldn't be anything more to raz me about and our daily email chains would dry up from 200-300 to about 2 or 3!

Quite the opposite... if you ever went GP, I would pester you to no end and never let you live it down. Paying a lot more for a DA might actually be cheaper than the increase in your data-plan bill

[VA6WGO]

Hi Will,

I believe it's June 10-12th this year.

Thanks Jack! Are you going to be able to make it?

Will

[VA6WGO]

http://rccanucks.com/showthread.php?...and-shine-2016
Here ya go will

Thanks Brodie! I'll look forward to it!

Will

[VA6WGO]

I have to ask the experts here, I have never owned a GP engine but I have seen them running and for what I see, they seem to pull like hell lol. What do you guys think about it? What's your experience and take on them?
Sorry, I should check on the website more often, I am sure it has been discussed here before.

Flame suit is on lol

Cheers,
Will

[JDaly]

Jim, I'll sell you my GP...then once again I can look down from the top shelf!!

Jack,

My current inventory of Top Shelf engines consists of:

1 x 3w55CS - Carden9 Extra 300
1 x DA70 - Waiting for a 35% RV-4 kit bashed to RV-8 build (Possibly starting in a month or deffer to a winter build)
1 x DA100L - 35% Original BBT Carden 330 Patty Scheme
1 x DA150 - 40% Carden Extra 260
1 x DA170 - In Storage waiting to be installed in a 40% JTEC Extra 330XS
1 x Mintor 110 - 35% BBT Aerotech 107" Yak 54 - Group Tranchant Scheme

I also have an Undefined Shelf EME 35 in an 76" EF MXS-EXP purchased form Mr.T = - No Blue Birds though - Savox and some killer Mini MKS servos.

[jeweler]

I have to ask the experts here, I have never owned a GP engine but I have seen them running and for what I see, they seem to pull like hell lol. What do you guys think about it? What's your experience and take on them?
Sorry, I should check on the website more often, I am sure it has been discussed here before.

Flame suit is on lol

Cheers,
Will

Experts Will??....rotfl!!

There's a lot of opinions Will....I will say that now, they are probably as good as most any other on the market and Lorne takes really good care of his customers. They have new cylinders now and they are some of the best I've seen.

I flew a friends last summer and it run as well as any other good engine on the market. Lots of hype about the power, I have only run my new one on the deck so far and for its displacement I'd say it's adequate. it didn't blow me away as I thought it would. From what I've seen it swings 1" more diameter-same pitch-same rpm over the 3W-106 and DA 100L. The other advantage is the GP is quite light compared to 3W and MVVS. So it's kind of a bonus all around.

Would I buy another? You bet, mine starts very easily, idles smooth and has great transition. (hopefully a maiden this week yet)

Definitely worth a look if you're in the market Will, I don't think you'd be disappointed.