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Old 12-10-2009, 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by rdeppen
Damn you Google search ^^^^^^

I 100% agree with the fact that is in the numbers of OS motors at the track. They are so user friendly that any monkey with a screwdriver and a P3 plug can get it to run decent.

When 50 to 60% of the engines are all one brand of course they are going to break. I had one crack down the centerline and one crack at the mounting ears from truggy ABUSE. Huge triples and ugly landings on rock hard clay tracks do ugly things to engine cases

With the way noobs drive and the flavor of the month engines (it's currently the Nova Plus 4c in FL) we'll start seeing them broken soon enough.


you are right with the os tuning rdeppen os engines will run even if you dont know how tune at all
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