RE: Cause of engine damage?
Does your car have wings and operated via an RC radio link? You going waaaay out of context. We could step that up to an Wright Cyclone radial next but it would be just as irelevant as the Windsor example.
Facts are what they are. Most of the mini RC gas engine users here are relatively new to RC gassers. Perhaps they have a lot of glow time, perhaps not, but most of them are new to the gas side of things. Their questions amplify that. This particular forum is pretty much dedicated to those relatively new to the propulsion type. When perusing other RC sites you'll find some of them deal very little with the smaller sizes and only deal with 50-100CC and up, up, up. In those forums the users are typically considerably more sophisticated with their models and knowledge levels of gas engine operation.
That was not a slight or dig, just the way it is. The advent/flood of what I call mini gas engines has indeed opened up gas engine use to those that either could not afford, or chose not to participate in, larger models. In many cases that has caused more trouble than it has been worth in shoe horning a few engines into airframes that were not ever intended for a larger framed engine, but that is completely a choice for the user to make. On a more personal level I don't much care for the mini gassers because they can be pretty finicky, and only a few of them are worth purchasing. But that's just me. Others see things differently.