Bruce, Minn..

I've posted my reasons for disliking the EVO's in other forums. I thought I would have a good engine at a reasonable cost, even bought three of them. But all of them would not perform and EVO people were no help. Send it to us, they said, and we can see what's wrong. I sent them one and they told me it was ok, so when I got it back, it would still not run. I had a 100 on an Excelleron 90 and it never, not once in six months, was able to burn a complete tank of fuel in a flight. It always quit in flight, not always at the same time or during the same maneuver. At times, I would take off, make a turn, level out then it quit.

One suggestion was to buy and install an OS carb. Ok.. at $80.00 plus the cost of the engine, well, it was then approaching the cost of an OS. So, I just get the OS and am done with it.

I just don't like them and will say so because I've had it with them. After almost a year of struggling with them, I think I am entitled to my opinion about them. If people have good luck with them, ok. I can appreciate that, but I clearly did not. Even my Super Tiger, with the leaking carb, broken muffler issues, and all, ran much better than any of the three Evo's.

There have been several different threads about the problems with EVO's in the past few years, there are three in the past few days in the beginners forum, yet I don't recall any about the OS or Super Tigre, or others that are quite as repetitive as this.

I've not been totally negative about ideas on how to fix the problems. See http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_6525680/tm.htm and see my posts and you will note that I thought several 'fixes' had merit. I don't own the engines any more so I can't try the fixes. But, I believe, as I said, that they may have merit and those with the engines and are still having problems, may want to give them a try. I just didn't want to rehash all that again in this particular (or probably any more in the future) thread.

CGr.