Here you see the 3W60i
mounted in our Cactus Aviation Super Chipmunk. If you
don't recognize the engine don't be alarmed. I needed
to machine a bit off the cylinders to fit it into the
chipmunks tight cowl. If you look closely you can see
yellow arrow shaft going to the needles. What I have
done for ease of tuning is cut off a bit of the low
and high needles and solder on the heads of a 6X32 socket
head screw. Very simple. now you just run arrow shaft
up to but not covering the needles. You then glue to
a hard point at the other end. WALLA! You now use your
ball driver to adjust the needles even with the engine
running. I did the same modification to the choke arm.
Now you just click for choke on, click for choke off.
If you notice I did not get to involved
in bringing cool air into the engine box. The 60i/70i's
bigger brothers(120iB2/140iB2) are more critical in
this area. Don't get me wrong. If you do wish to get
some fresh air into the carb this will make a little
more horsepower. I have flown it in this configuration
a while with no ill effects. If you do want to put air
to the carb all you need is a 11/2" dia. tube (phonolic
from an old wing tube is good). Seal the box. Run the
tube up from the bottom to the box. Make sure the tube
exits below the fuse to catch fresh air. You then drill
a 10mm hole in the box to let air the carb does not
use escape. If the box is in the fuselage you can but
a small hole at the tail of your airplane. This will
cause a vacuum and let the air flow easily.
Remember, don't believe all you hear at
the flying field. I have had much positive feed back
on the rear induction engines. They have tremendous
torque and with the new three port cylinder design they
can achieve this at lower RPM's. This means bigger props,
less noise.