I'm with you there- with electric you kinda just turn it on and then it sounds like a hoover for 1/2 an hour and then it stops, whereas with nitro you start it up- everybody's already annoyed and you haven't even started driving it, but when you do go no matter what the specs say, it feels like...
Yes this is a perfectly normal run time for most nitro RC vehicles. Unfortunately, due to the nature of 2 stroke, the inlet and outlet ports open at the same time, thus meaning that as fresh fuel and air mix enters some goes out the exhaust- that is the reason for the odd looking exhaust, as it...