HAH - man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

somegeek

He has an Evolution .60. If he leaves the limiters on there is little chance of running it too lean... quite the opposite... you have to remove the limiters to lean it out to where it should be...

I spent most of the afternoon reading the fuel forums today, mixing your own fuel, and I get the idea loud and clear that not only does the percent of nitro NOT matter, (and certainly not the COLOR, for gosh sake)., that in fact most .40 and up two-stroke engines will run fine on ZERO percent nitro, just 80 percent methanol and 20 percent castor or synthetic oil. So the blowhard at your field who is griping about pink vs. green doesn't know what he's talking about. Higher nitro amounts might be advantageous with high-performance is required, or at lower ambient temp climates. Some say castor is better for engines, ringed or not, some say synthetics are just as good or better, some use a blend. There's no consensus that I have seen. Most think castor or a blend is the way to go. I've never had any problems with my glow engines with 10 percent nitro fuel... And the freakin' color is any color you or the manufacturer decides to tint it with!

Be carefull who you listen too! Many here posting that are from forign countries and probably have never had an engine with low enough compression to truely need 15% or higher nitro. Most engines made for USA consumption will run much better with at least 5% nitro. Yeah if you are good at tuning an engine you can get it to run on 0% nitro, but it will be lean in the midrange and will not have the throttle response. However, if it is a higher compression engine, like many made in Europe, and some made in China, then it will run better with 0% nitro.