Enya III .09

I traded my uncle out of an EnyaIII .09 he bought at the Army PX in Hiwaii, in about 1972. It is sure an odd little engine, with the exhaust port on the left side, and the bypass ports (schnerle ports?) milled in the bore of the liner much like a C*X cylinder. Anyone here ever use one of these?

The Enya .09 III is a nice little non-schnuerle engine. BTW, for the Enya .09 IV they moved the exhaust on the other side.
It will probably need extensive iron/steel break-in for best performance. Short runs (~2 min) followed by complete cool down. Start rich, lean out a few clicks every other run. Richen again if it sags during the two minutes.
Good luck with it.

LAST EDITED ON Apr-10-04 AT 08:53 PM (CDT)
 
It has a little rust, but it should be ok I think. My uncle put it in a C/L Stuka back in '72, and said it crashed on the first lap. It has not been run since. He did not break it in, so I will give it an as new break in, and use it in a Brodak Circus Clown. It will look a bit odd exhausting upward.

I will be interested to know how you get on with the Enya 09, that is the most tricky starting engine that I have every played with, plenty of power when it gets going.

This one...???

I'm with Bazzer on this, tricky to start, 15% Nitro brew helped.

Good Flying

Tony, that is the one I have. Isn't it an odd little fellow?

>Tony, that is the one I have. Isn't it an odd little fellow?

Very handy to have the exhaust that side , perfect priming for a sidewinder.Plan to use this motor for my Son's new model.

Good Flying

What ever I and others have said about the little Enya, if you get it started it is powerful engine.

Don, I had one of those a few milleniums ago. Also an OS Pet 09 at the same time.
I thought the Enya was a little stronger..... all my engines seemed a "little" hard to start back then! LOL!!
Wish I knew what happened to those engines.
Bill <><

EddyR had an Enya 09 in a WeeDuper Zilch before he left Florida for cooler wheather and mountains. It powered the plane MUCH better than his OK Cub! Right Eddy? Not sure if his was a series III or not. (feel free to correct where my memory failed Ed)

The guy that invented the electric starter probably had a fleet of Enyas. Use one to start it and it'll be gutsy and impossible to wear out. Might take a bit to break in, and use lots of castor in the fuel for the first hour. The other fellow was right about lots of heat/cool cycles. After that the only way to hurt it will be with concrete!

TO BILL LITTLE:

You mean you actually got a Pet .o9 started ? I heard a rumor someone had but never could prove it!

>
>TO BILL LITTLE:
>
>You mean you actually got a Pet .o9 started ? I heard a
>rumor someone had but never could prove it!
>
>Jeff

Oh I don't know I had 2 of them and had a ball with them. No problem starting them and they were a little stronger then the Fox 09. They were a steel fin design and if you pushed the break in they really didn't last too long. Dennis

Hey Jeff!
Yeah, we did fly the "Pet" a few times!
My buddy knew about wiring (as much as a 13 year old can) and we wired our door bell batteries all kinda ways. Usually meant a lapse in flying after a time or two of starting them until we got more glow plugs!! LOL!!
Bill <><

Jeff,
I had two of the first issue (two bolt head) that started easily. The last I remember seeing either of those was disassembled in a jar at a friend's house. He had permanently borrowed it.
I have three of the ones with a drop-in liner (two CL, one throttled). I haven't run them in a while but don't remember having problems with them.
Perhaps you got a defective one.

Glad to hear some good things about the Pet .09. Most of the ones I saw here in Minnesota and the one I owned acted like they had been built by the people who made the old 'THOR'.

Seriously, I remember they were an early batch, from one dealer, bought at one time, cause a bunch of us wanted a cheap engine and they had just come out..
Might well have been a 'batch' problem because most never seemed to have any real compression. With todays variable batteries and starters they might have worked out well.

Hey guys, the Pet is an O.S. Max...

Jake

Jake,

I guess we kinda switched over to the Pet at Bill's posting #7. After rereading the posts I remember what happened to my other "two headbolt" Pet. When I was in the Navy I asked my parents to give one of my planes to friend who was a newbie to CL. They gave him my brand new, never flown Wee Duper Zilch with a Pet .09 in it.
I think the retail price was $4.95 for a Pet at that time.

by any act, error, or omission, I have, intentionally or
unintentionally, displayed any breedist, disciplinist, sexist, racist,
culturalist, nationalist, regionalist, localist, ageist, lookist, ableist,
sizeist, speciesist, intellectualist, socioeconomicist, ethnocentrist,
phallocentrist, heteropatriarchalist, or other violation of the rules of
political correctness, known or unknown, I am not sorry and I encourage you
to get over it.

Back to the Enya 09. As anyone who has ever disassembled one knows it has one of the thickest heaviest liners in a small motor that I have ever seen, never could figure out their logic on it. It's so massive that heat shouldn't be a problem with it. I own about 4 of them but haven't run any in years, same for the 15 but I agree with everyone elses opinion on the motor. Once broken in its yours for life.
Dennis