I bought the ricky stator when my oem stator went bad. My shee started within 2 kicks. Then I put the ricky stator in and one time it took 4 kicks and the next time 20 kicks. The next day I rode it I only got it started 2 times, and it ran like crap. It seemed like it had good low end and bad top end, suddenly the opposite would happen. I put my buddies oem stator in and all problems were gone. I bought an oem stator on ebay and the thing runs awsome. My engine builder told me he has had nothing but bad luck with ricky stator. I also did a search for ricky stator and found alot of problems with them.