Originally Posted by speedracerntrixie

Richard, I agree that we are sending way to much money to bolster other governments defense budgets. I hope that one day we all realize that when the Chinese military is out testing a new missile that the American public would realize that they partially funded that missile and the US goverment had to pull funding from a more useful place in order to counter that missile.

With that said most of what we said in this thread will fall on deaf ears. People don't like to be told they made a poor choice of purchase and of those a good percentage can't see the difference anyways. I call it the " don't know what they don't know " syndrome. Most guys are happy if their engine starts relatively easily and will transition from idle to full throttle. The finesse of a well built, tuned and balanced engine completly escapes them. I have for years read comments like " a mid range burble is normal and there is nothing you can do about it" or " these carbs stop making more power anything above half stick " . This is what guys are just willing to accept. We are pretty much become a society of plug and play and laziness. Guys buy ARFs because they don't want to build, they loose the ability to correctly trim the airplane because they don't know how to build. They expect that after assembly it's supposed to fly correctly from the get go. Getting back to engines. Recently I read a thread where the OP had bought a Chinese 120cc engine and could not get it started. Guys gave all kinds of suggestions including reworking the Reed block, verifying the timing, testing the ignition. In the end the OP decided he had to spend several hundred dollars for a starter large enough to spin a 120. Cost savings buying a Chinese engine right out the door. IMO that's the current mindset, buy cheap.......it's good enough for us.