Spare Engine-ideas?

[LazyDave]

Well i use to have a J3 CUB
air plane when i was younger. Now i have my car and i wan't to use the old engine. It is similer to the baby bee 0.49 No the engine is a small block. I want to put to good use. I have a t-max and i thought maby i can do something on the maxx or anywhere else. So do you have any ideas? :idea:

 

[Rolex]

There is nothing interchangeable between airplane engines and car engines.
Pretty much two different worlds.

 

[LazyDave]

Well it is not a $200 doller airplane engine it is like a $20 engine. all i want to know is if i can generate electricity. make like a pontone bote with a fan in the back, wachyoumacallit. anything, anything you can do with it easly not too costly try and keep it cheep you know. It could be practical or cool. i like to invent things but I'm not shure right know. so any have any good ieads?

i coud mount it to the front of the car and make my car 1/8 air plane 7/8 car. sience it is a nitro fule engine i could just buy a fule line split to share the fuel. Also if i cut out hole or a grill in the front it would act like a radiator. What do you thing?

 

[kwong2001]

I hope you don't mean putting a little .049 engine in a t-maxx? lol, that thing wouldn't even get the truck to move.

As for using airplane engines on cars...you could do it, but there's A LOT of modifiying to be done. And you better know engines inside and out, not mention have some serious machining skills

 

[dougc]

That would be cool to have it blow cold air in the motor, You should be able to do that... make a new motor stand for that .04 and place it on the trans I think lol

 

[LazyDave]

it woudn't be that hard the mount could be added to the old cool air intake stand that was atached to the trany. The mount would need no modifacation. all i need is a smaller propeller. If it does happen i will make shure to get pics.

 

[Rolex]

The smaller propeller won't work, since the prop is also the flywheel for an airplane engine.
You are just adding weight.

 

[RCDad]

i coud mount it to the front of the car and make my car 1/8 air plane 7/8 car.

You could tie some helium baloons to the truck and fly it around

 

[Rolex]

You can also mount it underneath with a reverse pitch prop to levitate it when going over jumps.

 

[RCDad]

You could hook a thin rope to the prop and pull out other trucks stuck in the mud.

 

[Plaidfish]

you could shut it off and stop blowing smoke up peoples ass.....HAHA just kidding.. I had to beat fasteddie to punchline.....HAHA again
try hooking it up to the air intake like you said and just use it like a supercharger from hell.......or make a battery cooling fan out of it and piss everbody off in the pit area.....that's a little engine there must be something different you can do with it.....a generator for a lightbulb??? make a mini RC airboat....or a really small road nitro car....get some CF sheets and cut it use some micro servos and see if you can make it work.....

 

[dougc]

I thinks a small airboat would be sweet... He only think that might give you trouble is making a carb that isnt wide open all the time .

 

[Plaidfish]

why would that be an issue...doesn't that thing have a carb you can modulate?

 

[dougc]

Not at all... Check out that pic.. When I had my flight line plane it was WOT all the time. lol

 

[Rolex]

Any control line plane I ever had with an .049 was wide open. When radio control became the thing, so did adjustable carbs.
After I wrecked my umpteenth control line plane, I built an air boat, that would squirrel across the lake till it jammed itself under the shrubs on the other side.
No radio, no steering, just a free for all. Great on a snow covered field though.

 

[RCDad]

I had the same thing with a little cox engine. Funny how I never had a problem getting THAT engine to start...

 

[LazyDave]

The air boat is a good idea. In fact i saw the air boats in the tower hobbies mag and i thaught i could use my engine for that. Then i thought about more things i could use it for. Making it power the supercharger would be awsome and you would only ad about 40 noteven grams of weight. I like the idea of the air boat.

to cotroll it i could make a flap on a hing and a survo will make it plow into the water. That is your break.

 

[FRIDGE]

i would build a boat, but i would just make the hull out of a car body to save measurment issues and evening it out so you dont turn to one side on throttle.

 

[lykan]

Make the boat air boat... out of a thick block of styrofoam. Shrink wrap the styrofoam for strength. Mount a rudder on the rear for steering. If it's too light just add a bit of lead weight where ever it is needed.

Another idea..inboard boat I have seen shafts made of tightly wound springs.. Kind of like the flexible shafts for the cordless drills. Use some hose and a pipe clamp to secur the shaft to the flexible spring. Bend a brass strip for the prop. Again just use a thick peice of styrofoam for the boat itself.

If the styrofoam has a slick bottom, and you have snow it should be light enough to also drive over the snow/wet grass.

You can also power any old small r/c or toy car with a puller/pusher prop setup

 

[LazyDave]

how should i mount the engine?

i know what i sould use for the boat. A foam sled here look.
http://extremedreams.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=60

under it the put a plastic that is extremly smoth. the sled works great and i have put in my pool. It floats just as well. So i would cut of a piece of for my air boat, right, does that sound good?