Hi All, been reading some of your forums with great interest as I'm a newbie to Nitro R/C.

I need some of your expert help.

I have just purchased 2 RTR nitro buggies, just hobby stuff not into racing or super hi tech etc. just take these things accross to the park with the lad to have some fun.

I have had my up's and downs with both cars but seem to have both running pretty well now, both are run in, and start up and run well.
My question is .......

Both car's instructions indicate running fuel mixture so that you can place the palm of your hand on the head and leave it there for "no less than 3 seconds" or the car is running too lean .

Thats great in theory but running the cars even at what I know is very rich settings (lots of smoke and take off bogging) after running around for 3/4 of a tank the heat on the head is well past leaving your hand on it for more than a split second. From what I'm starting to read in forums I'm better to ignore the temp and go by the car's actual running.. is this correct ???? Should I tune so the car runs well and not worry about how hot the head feels ????



Thanks Scooz.