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Old 04-11-2006 | 08:41 PM
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martinanderson
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Default engine compression

I recently broke my cluch spring and so i took the engine out of the buggy, i noticed the thing turns over very easy. like it dont have very much compression or something, i have ran about 12 or so tanks through it and it has been ran very rich, temp was 253 to 258 after tuning, i checked with two guages. it also has a nice stream of blue smoke out the exhaust. is this normal or is my engine already shot. i took off head and everything looks great. i dont have a compression guage to take a reading but still my plane engines turn over alot more harder but they are also .46 and bigger engines maybe that is the difference, also what is compression on these things new supose to be? thanks for lookin

martin