As above the Rex paloma Ltd edition.21 off road engine from novarossi has anyone any feedback they could give me on this engine or has anyone used it I was going to buy a sh engine and someone on here told me I can get novarossi for the same price range so an thinking of this Rex engine I used to use Rex in the on road racing and they were great now I have moved to off road and was looking for feed back on this engine

this engine is a beast...probably the most powerful offroad Nova there is right now......has immense amounts of bottom end torque.... you can make it even more powerful by removing 0.1 mm -0.2 mm worth of head shims and using a 9886/41001 combo.....

i need to order one and have it shipped to someone in the states, then shipped to me i cant pay the 60 they want to ship to canada directly

I have been running this engine in stock form for awhile now, 7 + gallons. actually run it in a truggy. I have only used 9901/41021 pipe combo, strong motor for sure. Haven't tried the pipe combo Neal is recommending but I would take his word for it and try that pipe as well.

Thanks for the feedback I think this will be my next motor

How well has the front bearing held up? I picked one up during their sale but haven't had a chance to break it in yet. It doesn't have the 17011 however, just a generic blue seal 7x19x6

How does it compare to the Elite 8?

well threw down a deposit on a paloma ltd mod from neal with the good front bearing, ceramic rear.
should go well with the square stroke 3 port and plus21btt novas

I wanna' know too: what are the differences between the Paloma and the Elite 8?

don't over lean the engine and the front bearing will hold up fine....the issues start when the tune gets lean and the engine loses its seal...

It has more power then the Elite 8.. both it and the Elite 8 have a complete MES style exhaust port which allows them to make more power then the higher end models that have incomplete MES exhaust... Some of them have the middle section of the MES dropped down really low which restricts flow...

How much more powerful is it compared to the gold Paloma?

the Gold one is the more powerful of the two

take the gold engine...put a 8 mm insert in the carb... drop out 0.2 mm head shim..basically take out the brass shim and leave the 2 aluminum shims.. grab a #6 or #7 glowplug..... add a 9886/41001 or a 9853/41001 and you will have a monster of a engine that will run like a raped ape !!!!

I see that they have two different type's of paloma's one with the gold head "limited" and another with the blue head at $90 more then the gold head. It has a slugged crank, is that the only difference between the two?

the Blue head has the 17.6 mm stroke where the gold head has the 16.8 stroke...The Blue head also has the 17011 bearing and as you said the tungsten slugged crank

So, a little more bottom grunt? Better front bearing, and better crank. The specs on the web page say's the same stroke between the two, but I'll take your word on it over the web page listing. Are they both 14.5 cranks?