Haywood,

Glad you broke yours in nice and slow. I just did a Saito .56 this weekend. As the instructions said, I didn't touch the low end. I twirled the top open 6 or 7 turns and fired it up. I throttled back to 4000 and ran for two 5-minute runs with the battery still attached. (Of course it's not going to keep running set that rich with high oil fuel.) Then I opened it up and ran several tanks, leaning each run.

I had mixed up a half gallon of break-in fuel with 24% oil by adding castor to stock 10%. After running this through it, she runs great, just the way you said yours did. Next, it'll go in my Big Stick 40 break-in plane for some air time after I pull the Magnum .70 that's presently in it.

It is my feeling that to many people rush the break-in and then complain about the engine. During break-in the engine slobbers and dumps oil out the crank vent line, but after the ring seats, this just about quits. Ringed 4-strokes just need a good 45 minutes of very rich running, then another couple of gallons to really smooth up. Most people just don't want to do this.