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Old 06-06-2003, 01:46 PM
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Default Can an engine idle with fuel containing no nitromethane?

Originally posted by Artisan
To me, nitro is a waste of money.
I have to agree there, unless you're in competitions where you need every bit of power you can get out of the engine. No amount of nitro will get my engines started faster than one flick and the idle is so slow and dependable there's no way the model will move by itself. But I've had up to a 20% increase in HP simply by bumping up the compression considerably. There was a thread on here a while ago about raising the compression on an OS and the guy was delighted with the results.