ORIGINAL: specom
I'm a beginner in Nitro engines.
Specom,
You might be on the right track, but only if you:
1. Don't call them 'nitro engines' because this is a term incorrectly used by stupid 'newbies' who don't know better, mostly in R/C cars, because it sounds more 'explosive' than the correct term - glow engines, or methanol engines.
These engines can all run well
without any nitromethane whatsoever in the fuel, but not even for one second if the fuel doesn't include a fair amount of methanol, on which the plug's continued glow depends, due to methanol's catalytic reaction with the platinum in its coil.
2. As Karol wrote, you must post this in the 'Glow Engines' forum...