Naughty Monkey
100cc
So I went up to see Joe at ZDZ USA to hang out and pick up a couple things, and he is just finishing up repairs on an old 100ng for a customer. He says he needs to test run a new engine for our buddy Brad and wants to get it mounted to his test stand and ready to go for tomorrow and he pulls out a new 224 quad. See, Joe's boss has a rule of no running engines after 8, and its about 9:30. In the back of my mind I'm thinking it would be so cool to see that thing run. I can see the devil on his left shoulder saying "go ahead, just run it for a minute, it will be ok", and the angel on his right shoulder saying, well who am I kidding, there was no angel, at that point, I knew it was ON! 
So we get it mounted to the stand and just about have everything hooked up when the boss calls. Somehow I knew I was gonna be the one in trouble for being the excuse to start this thing. At a little after 10, we have it ready to go and decide to run it in his build room, cuz it's insulated and will keep the noise down. We make sure its clear in front of the engine. I start bumping the prop back and forth and it primes in about 5 seconds! Joe flips on the ignition, I give 3 flips with choke on and it lights up. Open the choke, 3 more flips and it fires right up and settles into a nice, smooth idle. I come around to the back of the test stand and he slowly brings it to half throttle and then runs it wide open, and it instantly peaks out. Revs it up a few times and the response is instant every time. He holds it at full throttle for a seconds until stuff started blowing off the shelf behind us.
This thing is so smooth and power full. Spinning a 34x13 like it was nothing. Oh, and it was running on headers only. The sound is amazing and actually wasn't as loud as we expected. Joe called to see how much trouble I, I mean he was in. The only reason the Boss heard it was because she was out on the back porch.
Can't wait to see this thing in Brad's little Biplane
So we get it mounted to the stand and just about have everything hooked up when the boss calls. Somehow I knew I was gonna be the one in trouble for being the excuse to start this thing. At a little after 10, we have it ready to go and decide to run it in his build room, cuz it's insulated and will keep the noise down. We make sure its clear in front of the engine. I start bumping the prop back and forth and it primes in about 5 seconds! Joe flips on the ignition, I give 3 flips with choke on and it lights up. Open the choke, 3 more flips and it fires right up and settles into a nice, smooth idle. I come around to the back of the test stand and he slowly brings it to half throttle and then runs it wide open, and it instantly peaks out. Revs it up a few times and the response is instant every time. He holds it at full throttle for a seconds until stuff started blowing off the shelf behind us. This thing is so smooth and power full. Spinning a 34x13 like it was nothing. Oh, and it was running on headers only. The sound is amazing and actually wasn't as loud as we expected. Joe called to see how much trouble I, I mean he was in. The only reason the Boss heard it was because she was out on the back porch.
Can't wait to see this thing in Brad's little Biplane
