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ORIGINAL: cumquat
in the 3rd to last pic, do i see gear teeth on the fly wheel?
I'm seeing them too. I'm thinking: Onboard electric start?
and who else is getting a blister from just looking at that pull start?
If you get a blister from your pull start you're doing it wrong. It should start in five to ten pulls, if it doesn't, diagnose it. Don't just keep ripping on it like an idiot.
i had the same idea about the electric start. also had a passing thought of it possibly being there for a future alternator add-on. if that is in fact the flywheel (cant really see a distinction between the flywheel and clutch bell), it could be a 2-in-one starter motor/generator.
i got the blister from my first nitro. it was a used duratrax axis with a brand new picco .21 that i put in it. i had never started a nitro before and i wasnt too sure how to tune or setup a carb yet. with this thing, it's not so much how many times you have to hank the cord but how hard. i imagine this thing will have some compression to it.
as for the engine displacement change, i think they decided that 8cc was too weak for this behemoth. or they ran into a problem with such a small gasoline engine being temperamental or troublesome in some aspect and the easiest fix was making it bigger.