Originally Posted by
sn47som1
Well... like you have even said part of the process is machined which I believe is true from all modders... so yea that's exactly what I think is done to all tuned engines- part of it being modified by hand ya know, just like Rossi and Reds !! also hence "HAND TUNED" we see all over the place with Ielasi AS WELL as the pics of him working on engines by hand. I mean all of this really begs the question. Do you really think an honest business man and reseller would put blatantly obvious images of himself hand modifying engines on his public website as well as blatantly advertising his whole exclusive line as hand tuned- and not doing any hand tuning? cmon man
I own three 9CL engines. I can see the difference between hand and machine work and all I can say it is just machine work. If the chrome of the sleeve is also shown within the ports, then you can say there is no afterwork on the ports. These teardrops and port timing is all done on the CNC machine before being chromed.
The deep rounded turbo scoop is found in all expensive engines, even the ones that have no mentioning of "hand tuned" so yes, CNC can do more dificult shapes than over 10 years ago and I truly believe they are machined. I have here 2 new JP 35V2 engines, the boxes are stickered with "ceramic front and rear bearing" but only steel is placed.....
Face it, in the RC world we are fooled with all kind of interesting terms like "special develloped", "special designed" etc so when people can buy a "hand modified" engine for the same price as a stock machined engine the chance of getting customers for the hand tuned will make it higher. I have seen the partslist of the new Raptor, supprising is that 2 crankshafts are mentioned, one for the ceramic version and one for the steel bearing version. That is strange, to me it sounds that the ceramic version should be made faster.
A nice recent example of another RC product:
https://www.absolutehobbyz.com/Reds-Racing-Air-Filter-Oil_p_514562.html
Red RC ? RC Car News » Reds Racing air filter oil
This is their new specially-formulated high-quality REDS airfilter oil, for that price you can buy 2 large cans of Putoline oil which is the same.