Originally Posted by
Chris Reilly
Monty we have been racing nitro since 1993. R/C in general since 1988. We thought about adding a shim to raise the deck height. On the box it will quit some times. It's in a 5T that is only one race old. The engine isn't raceable unless it's at around 295. It's only 70 degree's outside. The engine doesn't have a gallon on it yet. To quit and run inconsistent is just driving us nuts. It will fine in the pits. Goto the track and it will quit. The engine has always been pre-heated before being started. His other Nova's have been fine.
Thanks
i dont really trust an engine enough to race it at a big race until it is at the very least 2 gallons old , released of metal pinch and all the bugs have been worked out of it
1 gallon of running on the novarossi engines is really not enough fuel ran through to start racing it and expect any kind of real power .
friction creates heat , keep running it and keep the temps in 230-240 range and wait for the power to come up and temps to drop . then full race tune
does the engine tune and run consistently ?
if it does not then there is a fuel delivery issue somewhere or an air leak in the equation . probably not the engine . novarossi engines seal up awesome
monty
if you want me to help you out with it you would have to ship it here