I talked to guy at the local hobby shop I bought the motor from and claims it is most likely just now breaking all the way in. He said on oval 3 gals probably hasn't been enough to do it but offroad was. This sound legit? Air filter is still clean.
Originally Posted by
thorpe
Need a little help.
I've had an alpha .24 and now have a 2013 pipe. I've been running it on the oval and we run about 3 min races. I was pretty sure I had it tuned just right. I've been thru about 3 gal including break in.
The problem came when i converted it back to buggy and ran my first off road last night with it. I made it thru 5 min heats no problem just a tad rich thru the night.
All of the sudden about 8 minutes into the main it started stalling and just terribly rich. Pit guy leaned it a little and it got better for a lap but then back rich again. Leaned a little more and got better and finished the race but so down on power.
Is this a common thing? I've never heard of anything Like that. I didn't get a chance to temp it after coming in so I don't know what its temping now. It was in the the 267 range before.