First use of "Brand XX" fuel

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Well,

I had the opportunity to run the old Revenge fuel being sold under the "Brand XX" label. I bought 60%

Pros: Cleaned up very very easily without leaving any greasy or slimy messy residue. After a day of racing the engines looked to be really clean and in good shape. No gooey drippings after running in between heats either. Seemed to get a little more top end speed but the 10% increase could have caused that. On my Sport 20 with the Nova Rossi engine I really had to lean it down, aboout 1/3 of a turn.

Pipe exhaust was looking really good and the top end speed was much better than I was getting from the RedMax with this fuel and the smell was not really present like some of the other fuels like O'Donnells. I actually went home with clean clothes.

Cons: I was previously running on 50% RedMax. When I started these engines up I expected since I was jumping from 50% up to 60% that it would have been leaner. Well, I ended up running very fat the first heats of our race.

While it cleaned up easily , I hadn't notice a fuel tube that spilled raw fuel onto my paint job and I'd guess within 10 minutes it ate all the paint off. Fortunately, it was right in a seem and wasn't to bad. That's one thing that RedMax was forgiving on.

Anyone care to speculate on the "fat" needle??

 

[Don Ferrette]

What's the oil content of Brand XX?? Red Max is typically 20% unless you request different. I ran this weekend going from 50% & 18% oil to 60% with 15% oil & didn't have to change needle setting very much. B)

 

[Roy Munoz]

For one thing the weather played an important part there Rodney....Every one was leaning down there carbs....I didn't have to lean down on my engine when I ran that fuel,The setting was the same for me after making back to back runs on Red Max and Brand XX...