adrenalnjunky,

The green foam next to the fuel tank is just green foam to hold the tank in place. My EI box and battery are in the engine box.

I have great news about the 90 degree copper elbow. When I got to the field this morning it was very windy and no one there but me and the runway. I left the settings where they were the night before when I was getting over 9000 rpm but it wouldn't run right so I tweaked on it a little and got 8800 on the top end and a nice idle at 2200 rpm so I thought that was good enough to try in the air. I taxied out to the runway and fired it up just to see how it would react. Everything looked and sounded good so I came back, got lined up, and poured the coal to it and was expecting it to go flat just after left off but it held the rpms and flew just great. Now, here was the test. I got lined up with the runway and cut the throttle to idle just to see if it would die and it held the idle fine so I did a touch and go and it climbed out with a lot of power. I flew 8 flights at around 7 min each and all were just as good as the first. Only one problem now, the choking method I had no longer works with the 90 degree elbow in place. Without being able to have my finger straight inside the stack where I can feel the fuel as I'm choking I don't know how many flips of the prop because it wont work by turning the prop over 4 - 6 times anymore. I was using my fuel tank to shoot fuel in the carb with the hand crank and flooded it a lot today and it took for ever to get it started. Thats ok....at least now when it does start its a screamer . I had to change out the wheels that came with the plane because thay were all eat away on the inside and sloppy on the bolts so I bought new low bounce tires a little taller and wider and new 5/32 X 2 axles and now its nice and beefy.