Well its been nasty here, but still been running the buggy a little. The Axial .28 engine has over 10 gallons of fuel through it now. It has been in my savage all its life until now. When I pulled it out it was filthy nasty and the last time it was sealed was during the break in process. So I cleaned it with simple green, pulled the carb and dissasembled it and cleaned it all up and resealed all the needles before I put it in the buggy. But I also decided to check it for air leaks because the tune had been a little finicky for the last little bit. I put it down into some water with everything sealed and then blew through the fuel line. Front bearing was leaking like crazy So I bought a new bearing for $6 shipped off of ebay and I had been running it with the leaky bearing in the buggy until tonight. The bearing came in today and I tore it down and got it installed tonight. Went out to run and had to lean the LSN quite a bit and it seems to be running great [8D] Idled perfectly and never died on me and the engine seemed to be responding well to needle changes.

I also got the correct throttle/brake linkage in and put on the buggy. Its nice to have brakes!

Now all thats really left is to wait on my 16t clutch bell. The 13t bell Id have to estimate gets it to around 35mph, but its hard to say. The Axial is a torquey engine, but not a high revving one, so the 16t bell should really bring it to life and gain a lot of top end I hope.

Edit. Just ran the gearing calculations

46/13 (current) gearing says it should go 38mph at 30,000rpm

46/16 gearing should bump it up to 46mph@30,000rpm which should be a little more fun. 8mph faster

I might should have went with a 17t bell, but I wanted a lot of bottom end pull so i didnt want to go too far, although id say it would have been fine. The 17t bell would put it at 49.3mph@30,000rpm.