Question vintage aircraft engine tuning adjustments

[johncott 177]

Been flying the Golden Age Simulations (GAS) Aeronca C-3 and the Taylor Craft J-2 Cub in P3DV5.3.  If you want to go lower and slower, these are the planes for you.  In real life, neither one of these planes had a mixture control from what I could find out from various articles and videos I could find on the internet and they are modelled by GAS that way. But the mixture control on my throttle controller will still adjust the mixture anyway.  I could not find out much about the engines other than the Aeronca had a E-113 engine and it had Zenith carburetor and the Taylor Craft J-2 had a Continental A-40-3.

An engine tune or adjusted for sea level will not perform the same as an engine tune for 3000 feet and vice versa.  I like to fly these planes like they were meant to be flown.  If the engines could have been tune-up for a specific elevation I can adjust the mixture control for a selected elevation and leave it there to simulate tuning the engine for the selected elevation.

My question, does anybody know if these engines had carburetor adjustments or engine adjustments for flying at different airfield elevations?

John C.

 

Edited June 20, 2022 by johncott