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well here in Austin its 111 degrees on my back porch and thats in the shade. So its practicly Africa hot here and i was wondering if anyone had any tips on how i can get decent preformance out of the 2.5 without it getting over 300 degrees

i was thinking about investing in a Crazy Nut Racing head to cool things down a bit
 
I fill your pain 106 at the surf .when it gets this hot I don’t even attempt it. Have you tried it at a rich setting with the lid off ?
 
I put a nova head on my picco & it dropped the temp about 30* but I have not ran it in 111* temps yet either. I don’t know anything about the CNR head. Will it cool better :shrug: but a 30*drop in temp is alot better than 30* over.
 
so i take it you live near the beach?
i may be going to the beach soon. you ever have any probs with the sand eating up gears and such i have a big motor saver filter so as far as i know the engine won't have any problems aside for heat mabey. but you ever have parts get all ground up from the sand or get messed up from al the salt in sand?
 
The sand is not that bad it’s the salt in the sand that gets me. The only one I will drive at the beach is my axis( beater) and yes everything carbon steal rust like no tomorrow thank god for oil. I put like 30 wt oil on all my cs parts and clean it with nitro cleaner first. Between the humidity & salt that is better known as( rust)it is a pain.
 
question is why are you outside on your own accord when it is that hot, let alone running an RC.
 
I can take heat if its dry, like real dry, but if its humid, then the hell with it. I'm here in jersey, and today we had a block party, so i ran my Maxx for about a half hour, but since i know how to tune, it stayed relitavly cool, and i have the original, so i beat the hell outta the engine to get here moving. It was 91 and 100% humidity. Un-Godly hot.
 
the other day i was driving and a storm blew in really fast and it cooled off and the pressure droped significantly and the affect was almost immediate i had to adjust the needle settings every few minutes as the storm came in. i was suprised to see how much it was affected by the humidity and atmospheric pressure
 

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