juzza99

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Where are you going to be racing gas at this year?

ben73

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liverpool

vikingen

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what buggy ?

didn't think you wanted to get your hands dirty

ben73

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8ight 2.0

I am not going to get my hands dirty - harlow is going to be pit man

I had to do it because am moving to asia with wk this year probably and they dont race electric. figured I should cut my teeth over here

mharlow

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I'm just going for a laugh

gillottine

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The Alpha engine is a very nice (and affordable!) donk! I ran one in Truggy at the SA state titles without fail (TQ'd 2 + rounds from memory too). O'Reilly can sort you out with one

too twisted

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Just ordered mine through my LHS. Price was awesome!!!

Looking forward to more Nitro fun in 2010

vikingen

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nice one... racing this sunday ?

will be interesting to see how you go

ben73

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yeah pretty sure I will.

how I go will be interesting... rubbish I expect given it will be the first offroad gas outing

anyway back on topic - my F850 started up first time and ran in really well. given the price and the fact that it certainly runs a lot better than my last nitro engine (in the 90's) I am looking forward to racing it.

with ryan lutz running them in the states it will be good to see how he goes against the factory boys

fleggasaurus

Hey Andrew

Would you please be able to tell me a few more details about which model alpha engine you were running, pipe and glow plug you were running please. please.

Thanks
Brendan

Funking-Awesome

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I'm pretty sure he was running a green headed one (7 port). But thats all i know.

ben73

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he ran the 7 port green head z852 with a os p3 plug and a 2035 pipe in his truggy

PaPaSmUrF

I heard he only ran it in the quals - he then took it out when it came to the business end of the meet?

Perhaps he too experienced the problem some of the Alphas seem to have - not holding a tune ?

I dont claim to be a tuning guru (nor do me mates) but we have given up on trying to get my Alpha to hold its tune reliably for any longer than a tank. I can get my tuning screwdriver around LRP, OS, GO and Ninja engines (all of which I have owned/own) but this one has done my head in.

My 5c, going back to watch some tennis now

ben73

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andrew will confirm but I am 99% sure he ran the nova in the buggy but strapped a brand new z852 in the truggy and ran it the whole time without issue

Poinas2

Heh, first it was GO's throwing rods, then it was MM fuel blowing bearings and now ALPHA not holding tune. All common problems that everyone seems to have with these "newcomers" but most won't experience. I'm just waiting that we'll have a thread of all the OS throwing rods or loosing compression after 1.5gallon and Novas blowing bearings and flaming out randomly/always after refill....or wait, it's not gonna happen as they are far better quality and claiming above it's just the knock-off users BS.