Nitro/oil contents
10-30-2006, 07:30 PM
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Nitro/oil contents
I'm breaking in a new engine( an OS 30 vg in a Savage)and have a question regarding fuel. It says in the manual to use a good commercially available fuel with 20% nitro. It does not give an amount of oil content to use but states later that 20-25% is a good ballpark. I am using Sidewinder racing fuel and it is only 12% oil content. I know that new fuels supposedly use a better quality oil and that is why many have lower oil contents than a while back.
I've put a quart through it and am going to put another through it tommorrow weather permitting.I also couldn't find any fuel online that had an oil content that high. Everything is going well(I'm heat cycling the motor)but I thought I'd ask the hive mind what they thought. I'm not new to nitro and this is the fourth engine I've broken in. This is however the first aftermarket motor that I've used.What sat the experts!!!
I've put a quart through it and am going to put another through it tommorrow weather permitting.I also couldn't find any fuel online that had an oil content that high. Everything is going well(I'm heat cycling the motor)but I thought I'd ask the hive mind what they thought. I'm not new to nitro and this is the fourth engine I've broken in. This is however the first aftermarket motor that I've used.What sat the experts!!!
