jack744

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Anybody flying a tamjet F-16 1/8 scale with the stock pipe and a turbine over a P80 I have a Kingtech K-100g I want to fly it with

Flynstuff

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If its a standard small pipe I would change it. also ad more fuel if possible

jack744

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The outside diameter of the pipe is 75mm, not sure if hats standard or not

sideshow

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Give Tam a call, he'll be able to tell you....

dubd

My guess is you'll need a bigger pipe. I had a P-120SE in mine and of course it needed a bigger pipe.

Like Sideshow says, give Tam a shout.

jack744

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TRIED CALLING THE NUMBER ON HIS WEBSITE ,NO CONTACT, EMAILED HIM ,AND SENT HIM A MESSAGE HERE THRU RCU. TAM IF YOU SEE THIS LET ME KNOW WHAT I NEED.THANKS RON

dw_crash

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Ron,

Wow!! that is a lot of power for this jet. Mine flew nice on just a WREN 54 MrkII, about 12 to 13 lb thrust. There is not a lot of space in the fuse for fuel. The K100 would gobble double the fuel of the Wren.

Are you worried about idle thrust? Could be high enough for the F-16 to just keep flying? Weight? Light planes always fly better!!!

Dave

jack744

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thats the smallest turbine I have will just throttle limit the turbine to 75% of thrust will be around 14-16 # and fuel usaage should be lower , will program into my 18mz when gear are down can have full thrust available to make go arounds and get up and out quicker.

Eddie P

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I've flown Tam's composite F-16 with a P-120. The TJ Composite F-16 with a Wren Supersport or similar light weight motor is an amazing jet. I thought it was a tad heavy and cumbersome with the big P-120 motor and all the gas though. The idle thrust and the weight was a touch high on the 120 so I had a hard time slowing down enough to get the nose nice and high for approach while worrying about having a lot of throttle lag due to the low thrust setting that I had to use compared with a P-60 or Wren. But it was very flyable and fun in the verticals. My feeling on dialing down the thrust... Don't limit your full thrust available. But DO limit your throttle setting in level flight for for sure in descents - oh yeah, for sure limit that. Thing is, if you are going to lug around all that weight with a big block motor and a bag of gas to feed it you may as well have the thrust that you may need to get out of trouble when you are laden with all that weight. Otherwise, why bother with all the negatives of being so heavy without the thrust available to have a little fun with it.

jack744

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thanks eddie for the post I understand about the wt. and fuel the k-100g weighs 2# 14 oz. comsumes 12 oz at full throttle so thinking alot less at 60-75% throttle like the install with internal valves

tamjets

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If you had the P-60 pipe. Is too small for 22 lbs engine.
You need new pipe.

jack744

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Tam I don't know which pipe it is but the outside diameter is 75mm . I am guessing that is the bigger pipe?
Thanks for your response
Ron

tamjets

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That is P-60 pipe.

jack744

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ok thanks tam

essyou35

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I flew the MB f-86D with a K80, and the pipe on that was really small diameter and I never had an issue. That pipe was deisgned for p-60 well.