eBay find: Enya 46-4C
I have found several good deals on eBay in the last month, I really don't even shop the classifieds here anymore. Plus I like to do rebuilds and eBay is full of those type engines. The balancing act is if I plan on reselling, I have to get the engine at the right price to buy the parts it needs and still at least break even. The engine featured here is NOT one that I can flip and make money on, but I will fly the crap out of. As with so many engines on eBay, no one can really trust the seller to know what they have or are talking about. Thus these are higher risk buys. My latest is an Enya 46-4C. The box and paperwork say it is a MKII. It is in decent shape overall. It does have a broken fin on the head and the throttle arm is broken off. One of the reasons I took a chance on this engine is that I have some spare parts for it since I have had several of these. I estimate about 1 gallon of fuel through it based on the carbon build up on the exhaust stem and piston. The bearings could still be used once oiled up but could be replaced now too. the truly unfortunate thing is the crankcase has some strange damage on the housing where the timing gear shaft bearing fits. I am not sure if it lost a bearing or if someone really damaged it trying to get this bearing out. Either way the bearing came out on the shaft. I am not sure if I can get anything in there to dress that area up or not. If I have to buy a new crankcase all bets are off of ever reselling this engine. The market demand for this engine is very light right now and many sit in the classifieds for months not selling.
Here is a video of it running.