Torco 30% Nitro fuel
04-11-2011, 07:43 PM
#2
I've been running it for @ 8 or 9 gallons or so now. LOVE IT! Tunes very easy, leaves no residue inside, and I have had no issues with temps at all. the only downside is it tends to smoke a bit more than typical.....so when tuning by smoke you just need to be a little more careful with it.
It's all I run in my Alphas at the moment....
It's all I run in my Alphas at the moment....
04-11-2011, 07:46 PM
#3
I've been running it for @ 8 or 9 gallons or so now. LOVE IT! Tunes very easy, leaves no residue inside, and I have had no issues with temps at all. the only downside is it tends to smoke a bit more than typical.....so when tuning by smoke you just need to be a little more careful with it.
It's all I run in my Alphas at the moment....
It's all I run in my Alphas at the moment....
positives..................1
negitives..................0
so far
04-11-2011, 11:36 PM
#4
I've been running it for @ 8 or 9 gallons or so now. LOVE IT! Tunes very easy, leaves no residue inside, and I have had no issues with temps at all. the only downside is it tends to smoke a bit more than typical.....so when tuning by smoke you just need to be a little more careful with it.
It's all I run in my Alphas at the moment....
It's all I run in my Alphas at the moment....
04-12-2011, 04:25 PM
#9
your going to get a mixture of love and hate with this fuel. I used it on my engines and my dads engines as well as a local guy ran it on his. On all the engines i ran it thru i could not get a consistent tune and also for it not to load up you had to lean it alot which causes issues but this is the reason you get your run time with this fuel, but keep in mind the more you lean it the less fuel which means less oil . i ended up having one engine rod go early on and 2 more engines lost compression about 5 gallon mark. A local guy had 3 engines go within a gallon. Both of us even had some experts tune it and they had the same results. Both of us swapped fuels at the same time and we havent had an issue since.
04-12-2011, 06:46 PM
#10
your going to get a mixture of love and hate with this fuel. I used it on my engines and my dads engines as well as a local guy ran it on his. On all the engines i ran it thru i could not get a consistent tune and also for it not to load up you had to lean it alot which causes issues but this is the reason you get your run time with this fuel, but keep in mind the more you lean it the less fuel which means less oil . i ended up having one engine rod go early on and 2 more engines lost compression about 5 gallon mark. A local guy had 3 engines go within a gallon. Both of us even had some experts tune it and they had the same results. Both of us swapped fuels at the same time and we havent had an issue since.
if it smokes my engines, i do a pretty good job getting the word out....LOL
04-12-2011, 09:30 PM
#14
ive use it for 6 months my local hobby shop started carring that and runs good been with it for a while now
04-12-2011, 09:34 PM
#15
I've heard stories of similar stuff, but my results have been great. My Alpha has had 7.5+ gallons of Torco through it....have yet to touch a thing on it. I think the excess smoke is what gets people...they lean too much and think the smoke trail is good....and grenade their engines. Just my opinion though.... It's a love hate thing like all other things RC. I have had great results....as have @ 10-15 other locals. No local horror stories with Torco...but have heard a lot on rctech about people grenading engines early on it. So who knows....