Heresy or not, Jim, if it works for you, who can knock it! (I still prefer plenty of castor in a Fox 35 - that's just me...)
Gordon,
if you can fit a 3.5 or 4 fl oz tank, do so with whichever you prefer. Time how long a full tank flies for you. If it is too long, graduated syringes (the ones with volume markings on the side) make it simple to fill to a measured amount. You can either fill the tank to overflowing, then pull out 1/4 or 1/2 fl oz or so, or check how much your tank actually takes to fill, and fill to the smaller amount that gets you thjrough your flight time.
If you need to visualize this: Say you have a 5 fl oz size syringe. Fill it to the 5 oz line, fill the tank until it starts to overflow. What's left in the syringe plus what's in the tank is that 5 fl oz you started with. If there's 1.5 fl oz still in the syringe, the tank is holding 3.5 fl oz.
You could start filling by drawing 3.5 fl oz into the syringe, with mebbe a bit more to make sure.
At the other end of the flight, if it ran 7 minutes every time, you're getting a consistent 2 minutes per fluid ounce. That's one minute for a half fluid ounce. So, if you want 6 minutes, fill the syringe half a fl oz less... (These numbers are just examples - your results may vary.) Don't sweat being exact at this, so long as you have enough to complete the flight you want to make.