Hi guys,

I've got a Team Orion CRL engine which I believe is Picco based? It's fully run in as it's been used for a season.

I used it for a race recently and I had no bottom end power at all, which I identified as a clutch gap issue.

Now I've set the correct gap, the clutch is engaging at idle after being revved, then it's disengaging after about 10 seconds.. Which makes me think the bottom end is too rich and the idle is set too high?

The exhaust is blowing a good looking white smoke but it does sound like it's idling too high after being revved, it does then drop off afterwards to nice idle after about 11 seconds.

Should I lean out the bottom end till I can get it to idle continuously and consistently and then back down the idle to a stable state? this seems to be the information I'm reading on the net. I'm new to this so don't wanna cook an engine.