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nitro-pilot -> RE: FOX 50 runs HOT (8/18/2005 7:40:02 PM)
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I'm sorry I commented. I've run dozens of Fox engines in the 70s only because they had the lowest sticker price in it's day. They were mostly dogs. I never ran a .50, didn't want to. I had enough. They are heavy, ugly, convoluted to tune, and why have unpleasant experiences in the hobby more than necessary? I switched. Thanks. The Castor content is a proven practice among competent fuel mixers of vintage engines abroad, not favorable to the keyboard experts that never tried? Thanks for your edit, but 28% works.
Finally, a .35 C/L or a .50, or any other displacement, WILL have heat problems with Cool Power in a vintage application, if it doesn't just sieze up first. Heat in a two stroke could be other things, but from cyber space, the comment on fuel used stood out to many as a problem, and it is. Correcting that first allows one problem to be resolved so further test and troubleshooting can be done. At least it's not stalling.
I've owned and have run hundreds of engines. Most I've kept over 30 years, and I eliminated every Fox I've ever bought, with a smile. Today people will spent $60 on a OS LA .40 engine, with cheap features as a bushing crank, plastic remote needle valve, and fly something even slower than a Fox. So from that perspective, yes, the Fox has power. But some of us fly SX .50s, Super Tigre .51s, and even Magnum .52 engines and never come second to a Fox .50. In fact, they are a lap ahead. Aside from smaller displacements, Fox hasn't even been in Towers stock, because it's crapola.
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