Cox Tether car - re-calculating

Ok, up-front.  It didn't go so well.

Fueled up the tether car, attached the fire, primed and it started first flip.  No kidding.  Running rich I leaned it out and noticed the engine was vibrating.  I have this habit of not tightening my engine case bolts when putting them away for storage.  

It was difficult getting those little 2/56's in right the first time anyway and my fingers shake, but I did get the engine off. I did not want to disassemble the whole car again and have to remove the engine mount so I just used the top two screws to re-secure the engine to the mount as the bottom two are impossible to get at.  Tight enough for a test run.



Brought everything out to the driveway and drove a pivot nail in the asphalt.  This time the darn thing would not start.  After 15 minutes of frustration I finally got out the 1/2A starter and got it started running great, and in the right direction.  Leaned it out to slightly rich and let it go after pointing the nose out of the circle.  



Traveling medium slow it got out 180 degrees to the high side of the driveway (slight slope) and came back towards me finding the tether and wrapping it around the engine shutting it down.  No damage.





Future runs I will lean the engine out to max thrust and start from the high side of the driveway down.



Kind of more fun than I thought it would be.

Bob