Hey guys, so yeah.I'm new to the hobby, and as the title of this post states, I had a run-in with overheating today.I have the Redcat Shockwave (knew going in I'd make mistakes, thus, I bought a 140 dollar buggy) and it only has about a quart of fuel ran through it, but today I was rompin around at a local rc dirt track and suddenly it started to lose its power. I checked the engine temp and it said 351!!! It was starting to smoke out of one of the cooling fin holes too. Now my questions are these: The glowplug is still good and it's slightly wet to the touch. Doesn't that mean I'm running rich? Also, there's a very nice trail of smoke that comes out of the exhaust pipe. Doesn't that indicate a proper tune?Obviously not though because of the temps. I made a rookie mistake and lost the stock needle settings as point of reference too.

This happened right after Iput in a new glow plug. It's an OS HOT, which probably isn't the right plug right considering it's only a .16 buggy motor? Ilet it sit for a few minutes,and when the temps dropped, it was running fine again, full power. I realize that I boogered up the engine, but do you guys think I can still maybe salvage another quart or two out of it?It stillsounds good. ButI'm totally lost as to how to get the damn temps down on this thing. It can't possibly need to go more rich on the needles.

In a nutshell ( I know I'm ranting): How should I go about lowering the temps of the motor when it seems I'm already running super rich?And number two, do you think the motor is past the point of no return? Iput in after run oil needless to say, but I don't think that's gonna help anything.

I definitely respect these nitro motors now more than ever though. They're pretty resilient, but DAMN they're more tricky than I expected!

Any feedback would be appreciated.