In what world does a Mach 26SS have more power than an Axial 28? Apparently my world.
I broke the axial in last year when it was in my mammoth. I ran about 1/2-3/4 gallon through it overall. Then I sold the mammoth, but kept the engine for when/if I bought another 1/8 truck.
I installed it in my AS last night... My mach 26SS has temp issues, but runs decent overall. I sent a letter to horizon and they said send it in and they would see what they could do for me. It will get up to 280F-300F if I'm hard on it or if I tune it for really good performance. At 250F-270F it runs well and pulls wheelies on demand.
So, I installed the axial since it was just sitting on a shelf all lubed up with ARO from last year. After looking at the axial though, I noticed there was a pool of ARO sitting in front of the crankshaft. So, the front bearing was leaking. I had read about axial bearings having issues shortly after I bought it, so I bought new bearings for it then. I spent 2 hours tearing out the old engine, replacing the bearings in the axial, sealed it with RTV and installing it into the AS yesterday.
I ran 3 tanks through it today. Gutless is the word that comes to mind. Horribly blubbery between 1/3-2/3 throttle. No power off the line and a very weak top RPM. I set the needles back to factory and it would barely run. I had to tune the HSN 1.5-2 turns lean just to get it to run at WOT. Temps at 240F.
I give up. :surrender The engine has less than a gallon through it and it runs like ass. I'm not going to waste a nice sunny Sunday trying to get it to run right. Anyone have any thoughts or insight into the axial engines just in case I feel like wasting a day to try it again?
I'll be re-installing the 26SS just to beat it and try to remove my angry frustrated mood.
I broke the axial in last year when it was in my mammoth. I ran about 1/2-3/4 gallon through it overall. Then I sold the mammoth, but kept the engine for when/if I bought another 1/8 truck.
I installed it in my AS last night... My mach 26SS has temp issues, but runs decent overall. I sent a letter to horizon and they said send it in and they would see what they could do for me. It will get up to 280F-300F if I'm hard on it or if I tune it for really good performance. At 250F-270F it runs well and pulls wheelies on demand.
So, I installed the axial since it was just sitting on a shelf all lubed up with ARO from last year. After looking at the axial though, I noticed there was a pool of ARO sitting in front of the crankshaft. So, the front bearing was leaking. I had read about axial bearings having issues shortly after I bought it, so I bought new bearings for it then. I spent 2 hours tearing out the old engine, replacing the bearings in the axial, sealed it with RTV and installing it into the AS yesterday.
I ran 3 tanks through it today. Gutless is the word that comes to mind. Horribly blubbery between 1/3-2/3 throttle. No power off the line and a very weak top RPM. I set the needles back to factory and it would barely run. I had to tune the HSN 1.5-2 turns lean just to get it to run at WOT. Temps at 240F.
I give up. :surrender The engine has less than a gallon through it and it runs like ass. I'm not going to waste a nice sunny Sunday trying to get it to run right. Anyone have any thoughts or insight into the axial engines just in case I feel like wasting a day to try it again?
I'll be re-installing the 26SS just to beat it and try to remove my angry frustrated mood.
