Budget Engine for Tmaxx?
Hello, I posted this on the Glow Engines forum and 1QwkSport2.5r told me that it would be better in another sub-forum so I am posting it here.
I have a friend getting into the hobby and he bought a used T-maxx 2.5 but it came with the old .15 engine, he gave it to me to rebuild for him because it was full of gunk and had low feeling compression, so I rebuilt it basically new for him but the low compression was not fixed by cleaning it out. I looked at the cylinder sleeve, and sure enough, it was worn a lot and I was about to push the piston all the way through with almost no effort, so to replace that would be about $30, but he is now thinking of buying a new engine that's more powerful. I have a 3.3 engine and I think its pretty good but it's pretty pricey to buy, so I started looking on Ebay for cheaper replacement engines that were more powerful, I found a two but IDK if they are worth it, one is redcat and I have heard that their RC's are junk but what about their engines?
one's a XTM .18 engine, the other is the Modified 02060 VX 18 2.74CC engine.