Do not even bother with the rods for the rudder. Just use a pull pull cable on the rudder and use the long rods and cut them for your ailerons. I have a cable pull pull on my rudder. The holes for the engine mount on my ARF matched up fine. I did not have all the troubles some of you are facing with your ARFs. Everything fit fine. The wing bolts supplied with the kits are very brittle. I replaced them with nylon bolts and new blind nuts. In all putting this thing together seemed like a normal arf. Again this thing flys much better than the Sig S.E it flys similar to the UCD3D. My C.G is way back passed what the recommend C.G is.
This thing hovers very easy does nice waterfalls very nice inverted flat spins harrier rolls harrier rolling circles etc. For a $109 dollars you cant go wrong. I let a very competent pilot fly mine and he said it flys much better than the Magic and he did cartwheels with this plane. This plane is a very good value. I fly mine with a plain TT46 no mousse can and the plane has plenty of power.