lol oh god someone , just let me send you my engine and you tell me what you think! LOL. Ok, I'm joking (sorta) but I see the guys at the airfield do the SAME thing for EVERY engine. After being on here, I am starting to realize that there are SO many variances in SO many engines out there. One person tells me this engine is great, great customer service...then another says....NO RUN>>>RUNNNNNNNN.

Regardless, I obviously didn't break in my cast iron engine properly. Worse, I am worried that by running it at high idles ...possibly lean this year for more than a couple minutes could have done some serious damage. I believe it will run, and when it did this sunday seemed to have AT LEAST twice the power as the OS .40 la engine the guy next to me was flying.
I had a eagle 2 trainer, he had a tower hobbies trainer. Both are just about dead on in weight. But mine at half throttle was screaming through the air while he was almost at stall speed when fly to the side of the wind.

Does that mean I'm in good shape? yes and no. It will fly and nicely, but for how long? How many issues will I have and worse...WHEN will they happen. At over two telephone poles high (ok I'm no genius) I won't stress too much if it cuts out on me. But if it happens on takeoff just as I am about to make my first turn. YIKES. To many trees, rocks, roads, cars, people, small furry aminals, and general pestilence abound ready to adsorb my poor little airplanes dollar value

Ce le vie. Thanks for the info on the cast iron and the 1st hand account of the Enya engine guys. I appreciate it. I'm learning everyday.

Now, hopefully with some time I will figure out whats up. I am curious about this fuel mixture thing though. I have to check into this. I actually had a guy at the airfield say I was running way too rich and too much oil in my gas because my plane was SOAKED after a 5 minute flight.

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