Originally Posted by litespeed-dom
Unfortunately Wally, we don't know who you are, how hard (or easy) do you drive your car, if you geared your car right, how you broke your motor in. It's hard to say why your crank broke.
I've never broke my STI crank, and Mike Ellis also been running the crap out of his STI all season, at least 2 30 min Main and 1 45 min Main last Sunday, plus your normal practice and heats. He has no problem with his and still running strong, AND he hasn't even replaced the rod at all!
Yeah, you can say "But my Novarossi didn't break...". Well, tell you something, I started this year with a new Rex RER3, and a 1/2 gallon thru JP T03 full option. Those 2 motors crapped on me on their 2nd race and my STI has been strong. So "but my (other) motors didn't break" isn't a strong argument. Just because my Rex or JP broek and my Sirio still run strong, I don't go an assume Rex or JP are crap start posting on their threads.
I assumed that Kyosho America replaced your motor, to be honest us team guys get the same motor as anyone would, our motors aren't specially treated or made, they are essentially just "off the shelve" like yours.
Breaking one, I can understand but breaking 2... I'll have to say you might need to look elsewhere for the answer instead of looking at the quality.
Dom
never sed they where crap and i never sed that team guys get different ones, i think i know why they broke you have to run them diff than novarossis, gearing and soforth,and dont run them like novarossis i did say there damm fast,im trying to get the low and mid to fell like the novas but i should not do this.