I have a friend who just bought a Alpha, and the evo .40 that is on his plane, runs very oddly, I suck at adjusting carbs, so maybe someone can help me.

The settings are at factory specs.

Primed the engine, and started it, ran it up to FT. Leaned it out just a tad.
Let it run at FT for about 45 seconds, to a minute, and it lost power, nearly died, until I droped the throttle, at idle, it ran fine, so I gave it full power again, and it ran up, for about 10 seconds, then died. I re-richened the setting on the high speed needle, and started it back up, same thing. I checked the fuel tank, all looks ok, I changed the little hose between the needle, and the carb.

I don't know what to try next, these engines are suposed to be broke in, and factory set. The QA team missed this one, I guess.