Thanks for all the info. I went out to try and condition the motor and my starter box started smoking really bad. Something short-circuited and melted the leads from the back of the power panel together and chared a spot on the inside of the wood enclosure. So now I need to figure out what happened there…once I do I will get back to the motor. My only concern is so much of working with the motor is listening to the sounds. Since I have no experience with the glow motors I don’t really know what I am listening for. I guess there is only one way to learn though right :0)

I did do the balancing and found it was nose heavy. Unfortunately moving the battery to the tail section did not do enough. I still need to add some lead the tail.