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Old 09-06-2022 | 09:33 AM
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Originally Posted by 1967brutus
The runners remain near completely cold,, despite the metallic contact where they connect to the head.
Also very little heat soaking after a hot engine stop. No explanation why, just an observation.
Yes, and when run on methanol, they run too cold, and the fuel condenses in the runners... No easy way to heat up the runners... its a common issue with glow 4 stroke engines to get the fuel to vaporize, they would be more fuel efficient.... I tried running the boxer on zero nitro and wasn't too impressed with the performance, so I run it with 8% nitro in the mix.... pulls the 21 pound J3 around with little more than scale like performance, not under powered by any means, but well balanced... not sure if I would attempt to do the gas conversion on that model. just due to the combination of the reduction in performance, and the complexity of re-plumbing the fuel system over to gas... there's a lot of work to get to the fuel lines buried in the wings and fuselage.

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