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Old 06-17-2012 | 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Dave De Voe
Was looking forward to pitting you in the A-main....and fun is what it's all about!!!
Family time today bro

How'd ya do ?
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lmk how it goes k
Got to run the nova this last weekend finally! Engine was PERFECT!!! Didn't take long to tune it in and it ran flawless. Did have a flame out in the main after my first pit, but I'm pretty sure that was a glo plug issue. Power was awesome and got great mileage too!

Thanks again Monty!!
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Old 06-19-2012 | 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by KSimmonds
Got to run the nova this last weekend finally! Engine was PERFECT!!! Didn't take long to tune it in and it ran flawless. Did have a flame out in the main after my first pit, but I'm pretty sure that was a glo plug issue. Power was awesome and got great mileage too!

Thanks again Monty!!
Thats good to hear kyle

Keep me posted bro
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Old 06-19-2012 | 06:53 PM
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Family time today bro

How'd ya do ?
Qauled 5th...finished 4th....truck got reallllyyyy loose at the end!
motor still ran just fine...
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Old 06-19-2012 | 07:51 PM
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If I go from a .21 plus 4 to a Roma .25 in my truggy. Are most finding you need to go up a tooth on the clutch bell for the larger displacement engines?

Thanks for your thoughts...
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Old 06-19-2012 | 08:55 PM
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If I go from a .21 plus 4 to a Roma .25 in my truggy. Are most finding you need to go up a tooth on the clutch bell for the larger displacement engines?

Thanks for your thoughts...
or just hang on for the ride
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Old 06-20-2012 | 07:34 AM
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Talking Houston Tune

Good day.

I was wondering what actually does a houston tuned engine have over stock?

Planning to purchase a P5LXT and wanted to know what the Houston tune does for the engine.

If this has been asked earlier, please point me to the post and I'll read it.

Thanks

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Old 06-20-2012 | 07:54 AM
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houston tuned"
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\"houston tuned\"
"Houston Tuned" these are engine modifications that matter without affecting engine reliability, longevity and ease of tune . these are the modifications that i have found over the years to work and work well with novarossi based engines

http://www.houstonsengineservice.com...638b63fba638fa
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Old 06-20-2012 | 01:36 PM
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Can someone explain the difference from monty's bench break in and ready to race service. And what is the procedures needed to send a couple of engines for some huston love. Look forward to using hustons services, have read nothing but good for years now.
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Old 06-22-2012 | 03:59 AM
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I got the bench break in method on the motor I got from Monty this year. It gets you passed the hard, tool throwing, cursing part of break in. All you have to do is preheat the engine to 200*, Fire it up on the box and drive easy for the first 3 or 4 tanks using low throttle. Next 3 or 4 tanks a little more stress on the engine by going a little faster. This process repeats until around 12 tanks you are getting to WOT throttle for short 1-2 second pulls. Keeping the tamps between 190* and 210*. That will be about 1500cc's of fuel and you can start to race it. After about a gallon you can start to race tune it. At about 2 gallons it should drop its nuts, need a slight retune and be a screamer with what I consider to be perfect all around power that gets 11 to 12 minutes on a tank. I don't know anyone that has gotten the R2R package yet but I think it gets you closer to the 1 gallon mark on your break in. THe time and money saved is probably worth it to get the R2R service.

By the way my first 8 tanks took approx 17 minutes per tank to complete and I did 2 tanks back to back. What I thought was going to be 10 to 15 minutes of running each time turned into a half an hour or more.
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Old 06-22-2012 | 09:11 AM
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Originally Posted by beidle99
I got the bench break in method on the motor I got from Monty this year. It gets you passed the hard, tool throwing, cursing part of break in. All you have to do is preheat the engine to 200*, Fire it up on the box and drive easy for the first 3 or 4 tanks using low throttle. Next 3 or 4 tanks a little more stress on the engine by going a little faster. This process repeats until around 12 tanks you are getting to WOT throttle for short 1-2 second pulls. Keeping the tamps between 190* and 210*. That will be about 1500cc's of fuel and you can start to race it. After about a gallon you can start to race tune it. At about 2 gallons it should drop its nuts, need a slight retune and be a screamer with what I consider to be perfect all around power that gets 11 to 12 minutes on a tank. I don't know anyone that has gotten the R2R package yet but I think it gets you closer to the 1 gallon mark on your break in. THe time and money saved is probably worth it to get the R2R service.

By the way my first 8 tanks took approx 17 minutes per tank to complete and I did 2 tanks back to back. What I thought was going to be 10 to 15 minutes of running each time turned into a half an hour or more.
Great post nick
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Old 06-22-2012 | 09:32 AM
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Thank you for clearing up, I'm gonna send in some engines for huston tune work. Was just curious on the difference between the two, I break all my engines in on the bench before putting in vehicles myself. Thank you gentleman.
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Old 06-22-2012 | 09:37 AM
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Mr. Monty, I could not find on your website of the procedure on sending an engine in for some work. Are you taking new customers for engine work? Thank you sir.
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Originally Posted by claymonkey
Mr. Monty, I could not find on your website of the procedure on sending an engine in for some work. Are you taking new customers for engine work? Thank you sir.
Send Monty a PM on here he will get back to you quickly.
I love playing hookie from work, now if my package from Absolute would show up today (post office and there signature rules is making it 2 days late) I would have something to do. To bad I'm not at the Nats
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