"I am starting this thing up tomorrow and am absolutely terrified that I am going to screw something up. <span class="info"> </span> "

"should I change anything up before I start it tomorrow or should I just throw it on the box and let it rip? "

Exerpts from the OP's posts. This leads me to believe he's hurrying the process of running the engine. He also seems to have gotten less than great advice from his "LHS guy". Im just trying to slow this guy down a bit to save him some headaches in the near future. No, these engines are not complex, but if you are completely green it does take a bit to grab a hold of what needs to be done...not to mention what is not complex to you or me, may be a foreign language to the next guy.

Just stating opinions here "Dude", and they're based on my experiences of not so distant memories of getting my first nitro, being overly excited about running it, doing minimal research, and running into countless issues (at the time seemed catastrophic) that I learned later were miniscule and easy to fix.