Originally Posted by SalvadoriRacing
corse.....
I respect your opinion......and I'd like to say that i agree with you in many techinal points you comment around this forum......
when I refered to crankshaft breakage you may know very well waht engine i refered to.........you seem to be a fan of sirio engines as I can read on sirio engines topic, and YES, if you got an evo3 and haven't had any problem with its conrod or crankshaft you're a VERY LUCKY guy....not to mention the previous versions which seemed to work only for official drivers at WC events.......
Salvadori:
Please... go to the first pages of this thread and others and you may realize that I've been a long-term Novarossi user (in fact... I've been using Nova engines since 2002 with the exception of two Sirios I've bought in the meantime - let me recall how many I've bought during this 4 years... too many to mention, from RS12's to NS/NSR's, RR and LS for the .12 and beginning with an SP-1, RX21's/RX21WC's and a 321P not too bad for the last 4 years. I can prove it if you want a photo of them).
I'm not a fan of XXX or YYY brand. I use what I see thats competitive and of course available easily, when I'm saying something about an engine isn't hype or an obscure marketing move are bare facts and my words are behind a test on the track by myself.
Liked Nova ones, and if they were a minimum quality and reliability (not in long term... short to medium term) I'll continue using them, but to my eyes are sub-par vs. the price they cost. Dollar by dollar (or Euros) you get more in 'other brands' sad, but true.
Having problems like you told is a matter of knowing the engines and knowing what to do and how to do it (I'll not negate that 'other brands' had continous problems with their crankshafts, but were replaced and hasn't appeared another time that problem). People has a very selective memory and remembers what nightmare happened with the Evo2, but doesn't remembers/or doesn't want to remember what's happening with actual LS and LR models giving the ghost the P/S with very few tanks (got an LS that gave the ghost with 6 tanks and I'm not a newbie doing break-ins).