RE: picking a engine
I gotta tell ya....You'll hear alot of people say that Super Tigers are nice engines,but are very difficult to get tuned right etc. Well,I own a G-90 and love it to death. Its mounted upright in my favorite plane(big stick .60) and gets flown more then any of my other engines. This is so far my favorite engine although obviously I havent flown my new Saito yet and I think it has a good chance at being my new fav.
The only problem with my beloved Super Tiger is at one point I swore up and down that I'd never buy another one after not ever being able to get in tuned right and my instuctor kept laughing and telling me "told ya to buy an OS". Its deadsticked on me 4 or 5 times during takeoff. At first,only my instructor could tune it. Everytime you'd even touch the needle it would seem to run great until takeoff....then blaaaa,deadstick 15' in the air. We finally a couple months ago got it tuned right or got lucky or something and I havent really touched it since and kinda afraid to. But since then....I've loved every flight with it and it runs better then any of my other engines(I dont own on OS 2 strokes though,but all the other guys do and they all run awesome). My experience with my ST are like alot I've read about and are the reason I dont recommend one to a new guy,but like you guys say.......its a GREAT engine.....once you get it running good,and its cheap!
My muffler baffles did fall out of its muffler though,has that happened to any of you guys' ST's?