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Way back in the 1960s when we lived in Hawaii my dad would go a flying mission to bring a load of cargo to Japan, and something back. I always scraped together all my lawn mowing money and gave it to him to buy me some model airplane engines. The Local stores sold them for something like 50 bucks, the on base hobby shop sold them for 40 with no sales tax, and in Japan where they were made they were like 12 bucks. Since he came home as the pilot in command in a US Air Force airplane there was no real customs, just land on base, and go home. I could port out the intake some and run hotter nitro-methane ratios and get more RPM with a bigger pitch prop and go faster than the other guys in a combat round. The bad news for the engine, they tended to run at higher RPM than design and the crank shaft would come apart and destroy the entire bottom end of the engine, and destroy the engine. But hey it was cheap!
The only point in all of that was the instructions were in Japanese, and some really funny translations to Engrish.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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