ORIGINAL: Sport_Pilot
Nitro doesn't really cost that much more
Spoken like a true American (no offense intended).
Come down here and buy some nitro, you might change your mind :-)
you get more power from the same weight engine, it makes the engine easier to tune.
True -- I think it's the "ease of tuning" that might be the biggest benefit of using nitro.
A couple of guys around here have been trying to run their ASP 4-strokes on 0% nitro fuel and wondered why their runs were always so inconsistent -- even the change in tank head was causing major problems and the needles were *really* sensitive.
I gave them a jug of 10% and the problems just went away -- plus they got a bit of a performance boost as well. They both promptly rushed off and bought some nitro (albeit wincing at the hit on their wallets).
Course if you live in a contry where nitro is the equivelent of $100 per gallon VS $40 in the US then this may not be such a good solution.
That's the truth brother -- I consider 10% nitro a "high nitro" fuel and have never run anything over 20% (even that was only on my 1/2A engines so they didn't suck too much).