I do not have enough of these out there to know for sure, But so far it looks to be quite exceptional on fuel...however I am not sure how much better it is on fuel as opposed to stock....It is a very nice running, crisp efficient engine...I just hope we get some back in stock soon.......

We have a bunch on backorder for a while now... hopefully soon as we have some already pre-sold.

Neal, the one local racer I know of that ran the fire 11 (Stock)was complaining off running dry at 8 minutes in a losi truggy!

We are around 11 minutes in Buggy from reports so far....

Neal do you think the break in method that Ron has posted is a solid method?

definitely

Same method I use for each motor i break in, pre heat is the most important part and dust free area for the first part

Since the needles on the nova carbs are long do you just set the carb to factory settings at the start rather than flush like the Werks carbs?

I find that with the air cleaner off the carby on the first start you need to open the idle gap up to around 1.75 - 2.00mm and then richen the L.S.N until the engine will idle nicely hence the nice dust free enviroment for the first tank to keep it running, werks engine was out a little from flush, nova motor was out more on the L.S.N but you get a nice fast flow of fuel through the motor with plenty of oil to protect it, 5 - 6 minute runtime on the first tank lol, I had my engine heads wrapped in aluminum foil to keep the temps around the 180 - 200 f mark through out the break in process.

Once pre heated to 180f just start it up and tune the L.S.N out till it idles nicely for the first tank, then fit the air cleaner and close the idle gap a little and lean the L.S.N a little for tank two and then slowly close the idle gap and lean the bottom end during each tank till the engine is broken in, its hard to get it wrong as the motor breaks in the idle will rise so close the idle gap and lean the bottom end until it idles nice time and time again until you reach that 0.5 idle gap and have the L.S.N set to go then tune the H.S.N and your ready to go have some fun.

I find that I just let the engine heat cycle at BDC between the first two tanks then I try to break the motor in the full 10 - 12 tanks in a row not giving the engine any time to cool so that the strain on the rod and pin is the least amount that the engine has to have during the break in and it seems to work fine for me.

whats the difference (aspects like power, efficiency,run time.. etc )
between stock plus4 and stock plus4btta ...
and also whats the difference between clocked plus4 and clocked plus 4btta .. .. buggy needs an engine.

Hey Guys, I just wanted to report on my first experience with Neal's Bonito.

Last week I headed down to Florida to do a little practice at Lake Park before the JC clash, I was running my buggy most of the time and decided run my truggy to finish the break in process before the race. There were some jumps that I really had to get into the throttle to clear with my buggy so I figured with the truggy I would not be doing them. That's how it normally works anyway but that was before I had Neal's Bonito. My first lap out of the pits was right into the sweeper to a section of jumps and of course thinking I would have a hard time clearing them I punched it and over jumped everything on the track!! Then I hit the straightaway and it had a nice smooth but powerful acceleration but by about midway the engine exploded into something I have never experienced with any off road engine. The sound and pull this thing had was crazy!! I had a huge smile on my face and told my buddy this thing was serious!

So when I got the the Clash I ran my buggy a bit and was having trouble clearing the quad in the middle of the track, I told my buddy, wait until I break out my truggy, I'll clear that by a mile!! He laughed and told me I was crazy and bet me lunch I wouldn't be able to do it. At the time the track was high bite btw. Then I got my truggy out all excited to get a free lunch, so the first lap I just tripled it and the next lap flat landed the quad over jumping it by a foot or so. Everyone was going nuts. There were only about 10 buggies doing the jump and no truggies except for me.

I didnt have the best of time in qualifying with the changing track conditions, mainly do to lack of experience in that type of condition but in the end I was able to place 4th in the Amain. I lost my advantage for the main and qualifying so I could not quad the jump, lots of rain made the track slower by about 2 seconds and the run before the quad was slick. I was still able to do 10 minute stops with the high speed needle pretty far out. I can't wain until it breaks in!

In short WOW I was impressed! I can't wait to try something in my buggy that Neal does this spring (Novarossi of course)

I know just what you are saying about the banito in the truggy, I would suggest if you want the same smile in the buggy grab a novarossi p5, after 6 litres of fuel the engine ran 12 plus minutes in my truggy and I cant wait to get it on the track in the buggy.

Yesterday was the finals of our summer series at ET motopark. I finished 2nd overall in Buggy. Not one flameout or engine issue at any of the 8 races. Clockwork engines were just Money the entire series! I need to thank Neal and John and also Agama, M2C, VP pro, and Answer RC for making such great products for me to race with. I am Fat guy #3 all the way to the right

Congrats James. See ya in a couple months.

Also a Congrats to Chris wheeler and Big Nasty (Dont know his real name lol)

Damn... those are some SWEET trophies! Where the hell can you put that thing?

Congrats James!