All great suggestions, thanks bros.
Redid the tank today and is surrounded by foam cushion.
Lines redone as well, no holes.
Put the 9-7 on it and richened her a lot when run.
On the first few attempts at high rpm she died and I richened her up lots.
Finally got a full blast run with rich setting, sounds like thats the trick, just too lean...doh!
Hopefully will fly her tomorrow.
Also, those GP racing wheels suck...goodbye....found a couple of lite sponge wheels and tricked it out, cut the fat wheels in half and vola! lighter wheels. You will see it in the pic momentarily.
Thanks bros for all your help.

Mike