motors should be in this week and after the retrofits we should have a few. will let you know after the rd race this weekend in cali.

the plus part is we are now working with two engine manufacturers which is a good thing. we are also investigating taking on a custom version of the team magic g4 built especially for RD. after looking at all the good cars out there this one stands out as a great performer with a few changes and they appear to be willing to work with us.

Usefull note from the nats:
I'll try to make this simple without getting into deep theory, but it appears that in more than a few cases people are suffering detonation from to short of a tuned pipe header. It happened to us at the nats when the wether rose above 70 degrees. after reviewing numerous races in the last year and discussing engine performance problems with all engines we have used including novarossi we discovered that in many cases an engine ran great late in the day and very poor in the middle of the day. at the nats we traced it to to short of a header causing blowback into the crankcase. this caused the engine ( both novas and rd's)to detonate and be needle sensitive. so heres how you detect it.

If your running a turbo II pipe and the head clerance is .021 thousanths on 40 % fuel and all the sudden it starts to lay over about 5 minutes in and you find the needles look excessively rich on their adjustment this is what is happening. The tuned pipe reversion wave is so strong that it is causing the fuel air mixture to be blown back down into the crankcase and no amount of richening will fix it. This is an indicator that the pipe is to short and we suggest you use the long 12 header and the long 21 header if the temp is above 75 degrees or the air density is high. This has bitten us many times the last year and during a discussion with the team we surmised that this is what was happening. Infact on a novarossi pipe it became really severe. so we are making adjustments to the RD pipe line to address this issue with the long header being standard and the short being the option. (all of us are pushing the engines right to the edge)
Dennis
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