damifino, can you elaborate a little on why it would be a mistake? I'd like to understand your reasoning and learn from it. Is it simply because of the weight? If so, are you sure the weight would be increased by doing this? I would imagine that it wouldn't be that different since much of the push rod weight would be removed from the tail. Also, eventually you want an acrobatic plane to be a little tail heavy don't you? At least, that's what I did in past planes (add some tail weight). So, for the initial flights, I could add some nose weight to get the CG right... that would make the plane a little heavier altogether, but after the inial fights and trimming is done, I could remove the nose weight to get a little more acrobatic potential out of it...?

Please let me know where my reasoning is messed up... I'm here to learn.