Hey Guy's

I have been flying my SPE 40cc for a while now and I have been quite happy with it using the stock Melody ingition unit. It provides plenty of power to get my 14Lbs Fw-190 around spinning a 18x8 3 blade prop at 6480rpm.

Anyways she has not flown for about 5-6 months after she was involved in a landing incident. I could be bothered fixing her[X(], but i have finally completed the repairs and fired the engine up today just to make sure it was all good. My SPE has always been a bit of a biter on start up, and today was no different. she also shakes the crap out of the model and the ailerons cop abuse because of it. On running her today i decided to take the cowl off and see if i could get it to run properly at WOT, because she has always misses or 4 strokes just a tiny bit.

Having stumbled on this thread again yesterday i read that all these symptoms are an indicator that the timing was out. So following all the links and instructions i found that mine too had been delivered with the timing set to about 50-55 degrees[X(]. So for those of you who have had the same attitude as mine of "if it aint broke, don't fix it" check you timing!!!

I'll run the engine up tomorrow after i fix the aileron hinges that have given up the ghost again because of the vibes and let everyone know of any improvements.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_VyREtT0GM

This is one of the earlier flight when she was still running rich as it was getting broken in..

Thanks

dave