Well, I've never had a Magnum, but I hear that they are fine engines, at least the four stroke ones. I did, however own a Super Tigre 75. What I saw was that it leaked raw fuel, but ran just fine. But I did have some strange problems with it. The baffle inside the muffler came loose.. rattling around. Sounded like a jingle bell in flight. I called I think it was Horizon.. the distributor anyway, and told them about this. They immediately sent me a new replacement muffler. I got it in about three or four days. Good service. I replaced it and flew. Three or four tanks later.. gingle bells again. So, I called them back and their suggestion was to go to a tuned pipe arrangement.

I ended up calling MACS and ordering a header and tuned pipe. That was fairly expensive considering the cost of the engine. But it worked out fine and did increase the power output.. as though I needed it. Anyway, the total cost of this excursion equaled the cost of a new OS engine and I probably would have gone that way had I known of the issues I faced with the Super Tigre.

But, all in all, the Super Tigre started fine, ran well, and provided me good power with or without the tuned pipe. Those raw fuel leakes coming right out of the carb, by the way, were a bit of a pain, but I just ignored it and flew the plane. Oh, it was a Goldberg Tiger 60 ARF, by the way.

CGr.