I am new to nitro and RC in general and i made the mistake of buying the BIY Condor for my boy. it was something for us to do together but i did ot research well and have now seen all the negatives about. with that being said i hope i could get some helpful info on here.
I guess the first point is that it doesn't prime very well. On occasions i have had to blow the fuel in but having built the car now on 2 seperate occasions after starting to start break in, after a short time it seems to get mega hot (no temp gun) to the point the engine looks like it is smoking then the throttle seems to go full blast all on its own. The car was idling a little high altough the carb is set to around 1mm and I haven't mucked with the needles at all. It has happened twice now and both times because we were holding car when it went beserk it stripped the spur gear and left the engine gear spinning for nearly a minute after we cut it off.
I have tried to research this myself, I have read many posts about linkage and such, but again carb is not being moved from the 1mm so i can see no reason why it just goes beserk on it's own. I have seen a couple of posts that make me think it might be an Air leak but tbh if that may be the case they can replace it being it's new rather then me go through the test.
If anyone can provide any useful comments or questions i can answer, it would be appreciated. I feel bad for my boy, we have had it built a month and only managed 1 tank and not even driven it in anger yet.
Please leave the ACME told you so comments out of it lol
I guess the first point is that it doesn't prime very well. On occasions i have had to blow the fuel in but having built the car now on 2 seperate occasions after starting to start break in, after a short time it seems to get mega hot (no temp gun) to the point the engine looks like it is smoking then the throttle seems to go full blast all on its own. The car was idling a little high altough the carb is set to around 1mm and I haven't mucked with the needles at all. It has happened twice now and both times because we were holding car when it went beserk it stripped the spur gear and left the engine gear spinning for nearly a minute after we cut it off.
I have tried to research this myself, I have read many posts about linkage and such, but again carb is not being moved from the 1mm so i can see no reason why it just goes beserk on it's own. I have seen a couple of posts that make me think it might be an Air leak but tbh if that may be the case they can replace it being it's new rather then me go through the test.
If anyone can provide any useful comments or questions i can answer, it would be appreciated. I feel bad for my boy, we have had it built a month and only managed 1 tank and not even driven it in anger yet.
Please leave the ACME told you so comments out of it lol