Which budget engine?

[nobrob]

I'm looking for a budget engine and found these choices.

Picco @ £80
HoBao @ £100
Novarossi @ £135
RB @ £155

All .21 buggy 3 port with standard glow plug.

I currently have the HoBao, and I don't want to take a step backward, if the Picco is less good then throw that out of the equation.

However, I value durability (spending less money) over performance, so please take into account I can buy two Piccos for the price of the RB.

Which would you recommend?

Thanks

[savageracer1]

i would look at the new range of GO engines mate: http://www.radio-racers.co.uk/cgi-bi...21R5PT#a21R5PT

ive just run one in my truggy and they are a stonking engine for the price, you also get a pipe and a CON ROD!!, this will last you a while


Jake

[ainsbury8]

i use the picco p3 its a stonking little engine.you cant go wrong for the money, very fast easy to tune, not as tight to break in as the go engines. forget the hyper if i was you. as in my experience they run hot.

[JonyNitro]

If its budget,are you racing?starting out! novarossi, or the p3 basic

[ryanlownie]

Novarossi.

The new 21R 2010 is an excellent engine. I've been speaking to a lot of customers and this engine is rated very highly. Your getting very similar performance to the higher end Novarossi's (Plus 4 for example).

For the money you really cannot go wrong with it. It'll be easy to break in, tune and the reliability is like nothing else I found. Also, a few people from our track get 12+ minutes runtime out of it with ease.

[Chrislong]

Ive been running the NN21R and its bloody good. Its fast beyond what it ought to be for its price! I have had no issue with tuning, the factory settings are good for running in and then lean out very little and it screams.

At Stoke on Sunday, I was doing a 3 minute warm up straight into 5 minute race without stopping, finishing in 5min 37 seconds. So thats almost 9 minutes, and I have 1/3rd of a tank left.... so thats easy 12 minutes+. I run it on Byron 30%.