No no it's making gobs of power, i'm toasting tires, but as soon as it heats up, it loses power a little, and it stalls, when i try to restart it it has no compression on the pull starter.... I am NOT going to tear the motor apart yet, it's only 6 days old !! And I am running it at about 230 degrees by the way, i monitor it so i know for sure it's not overheating....