Rudy Formanek
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The engine uses a rotating shaft for the induction valve (kinda like a carb rotor), since it is a shaft and has a hole drilled through it, it opens every 180 degrees of rotation. To help envision this: if you were a little man standing inside the shaft hole and rotating with it, the intake mixture would go by one direction, then you would rotate 180 and the mixture would flow by in the other direction. The shaft would have to rotate at half speed. Clear as mud??? The crankcase bottom is seperate from the crankcase top, splitting horizontally centered on the crank bearings. Bolts hold the bottom of the case on. Don't think this engine is gonna take kindly to nitro. But still a wonderful and innovation piece of work, don't think these collectables would be run anyway. Hey, guys spend $3000.00 on turbines and crash them, so maybe $1500.00 for a runner ain't so bad. There are more turbine manufacturers than model boat motor manufactures, sad but true.