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Old 03-10-2011, 05:20 PM
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so as of right now im running Traxxas 3232X Super Duty Long Glow Plug
which are medium plugs on both my savage ss k4.6 and revo 3.3
im using torco 20% fuel which is awesome have no issues and temps are down ive noticed
my question is im thinking of buying both 30% and 20% and mixing them to get a 25% mix
do you think i would be getting better resualts with this or should i stick to whats working for me?
Old 03-21-2011, 09:50 PM
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l find 25% to run awesome, and cooler.Im in australia though, where its very humid and hot.
Old 03-26-2011, 06:07 AM
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Default RE: fuel and glow plug question-revo and savage

I've ran 25% for the last year and havent had any problems running it (even with hot plugs). I quit using traxxas plugs though - I found McCoy's to last longer and are cheaper for me. I dont know how much fuel costs in your area, but 30% fuel is about $38 a gallon and 20% being $31 a gallon around here. Sometimes my LHS has 25% fuel and that ran me about $35 a gallon. Personally I'd run the 20% fuel on a hot glow plug and be happy with it.

I have all of the chemicals to make my own fuel and I'm going to switch back to running 20% nitro in my car engines. I can mix a gallon of 20% nitro/12% castor oil for about $18 a gallon. A gallon of 0% nitro fuel would cost me about $10 but I dont know if I can get the compression high enough to get the same performance from it vs. the 20% nitro.

The more nitromethane in the fuel, the hotter combustion will be and thus more heat in the engine. If I were to run 25% again, I'd up the oil content to about 14% vs. the 12% I normally run just because of the extra heat. Methanol does an awesome job of cooling the engine - the reason why a rich fuel mixture will run so much cooler than a lean mixture. More nitro means less methanol which means more heat at optimum fuel mixture. If your engine runs cooler on higher nitro, its probably just a bit rich of peak mixture.

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