The VMAR Model Engine Test Stand - nothing beats it!
If you've ever needed to break in an engine, test an engine, troubleshoot an engine, set up an engine, check out fuel level sensitivity of an engine or just plumb wanted to run the darned engine before you put it in your flying pride and joy... then the VMAR Model Engine Test Stand is for you!
The VMAR Model Engine Test Stand is the market leader in features, quality, ease of use, range of application, adaptability, flexibility and best of all it offers good old fashioned value for your money! This is one Test Stand that you'll be using for years!
Features:
Quality Engineered by Modelers for
Modelers!
The very high density “no warp” Base Plate is the all important foundation of the whole VMAR Model Engine Test Stand. The Base Plate is not just some chunk of commercial plywood, we’ve selected a very unique material that is perfect at being dead flat and true. By staying dead flat and true, the base plate ensures you can clamp down your engine and run it for hours if necessary without stressing the crankcase or engine mounting lugs.
The Base
Plate comes with heavy duty Firewall Mounting Rails that in turn hold the
Adjustable Firewalls. By sliding the Adjustable Firewalls closer together or
further apart you can accommodate engines from .09 or smaller to 1.80 or larger!
The VMAR Engine Test stand can accommodate
engine crankcases that range from approximately 19mm (3/4 in.) to 64mm (2-1/2
in.) in width.
The
heavy duty engine mount T-Beams are screwed to the Adjustable Firewalls and the
engine being tested is clamped down to the engine mount T-Beams. The engine
mount T-Beams have four holes which when used in combination with the three
holes in the engine Clamp Plates provide for a wide range of engine
“lengths”... check out the link to the "details"
for all the different mount specifications. The four extra Engine Clamp
Plates can serve as spacers beneath 4-stroke or other Engines with rear mounted
carburetors or exhaust outlets that may need to be lifted to clear the
Adjustable Firewalls. We've done all we can to make sure that the VMAR Model
Engine Test Stand will work with our engine!
Reliable
engine testing and operation is highly dependent upon correct positioning of the
fuel tank. We’ve designed the VMAR Engine Test Stand to provide for easy
vertical movement of the tank up or down. Your engine manual will contain
recommended vertical positions of the fuel tank relative to the engine; usually
they relate the center line of the tank to the needle valve. You can adjust the
Fuel Tank Platform up or down through a range for over 68mm (2.5 in)! We use a
three bolt system and a Foam Sheet to ensure that the engine vibration is
dampened and to hold the Fuel Tank Platform steady. Lower grade stands use one
bolt and a couple of dowels to try to secure the fuel tank... no way... in VMAR
land we do it right with three bolts and heavy duty lock down nuts! There is
nothing worse than lean runs and unreliable fuel mixtures caused by vibration
induced fuel foaming. One thing you don’t want when breaking in an engine is a
lean run. The Foam Sheet and secure three bolt system for the adjustable Fuel
Tank Platform help minimize the potential for fuel foaming and unintentional
lean running and engine damage caused by air in the fuel.
One of things that often frustrates modelers using a Model Engine Test Stand is how to control the throttle. You want to be able to vary the throttle and hold a setting when you want to but most Test Stands leave throttle control to you or the manufacturer ends up throwing in a piece of old wire at the last minute. The VMAR Model Engine Test Stand does it right with a Throttle Control system that enables you to easily control and retain the throttle setting. The Throttle Arm itself is mounted safely back out of the way of the prop with a tension wing nut to keep your throttle setting where you put it!
Only from VMAR Manufacturing... setting the standard in Affordable RC products.
Includes:
- Base Plate
- Adjustable Firewalls
- Heavy Duty Firewall Mounting Rails
- Heavy Duty clamp type T-Beam engine mounts
- Fuel Tank Platform with adjustable fuel tank height
- Vibration absorbing Foam Sheet to prevent fuel foaming
- Throttle Control system for safe reliable control of throttle.
- 4mm Allen Wrench
- All fittings, nuts and bolts
- Assembly Manual
