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RE: Road Atlanta Gear Ratio

To: fot@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: RE: Road Atlanta Gear Ratio
From: Henry Frye <henry@henryfrye.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:23:33 -0500
At 04:51 PM 01/18/2005 -0800, Bill Babcock wrote:
>But I have a steel crank,
>Carillo rods, good valve springs, forged pistons, light flywheel and clutch
>with eight ARP bolts and two dowels. Pshaw says Ken, it's fine at 8000.
>
>Well, it's not Ken's first rodeo, so I'm going to listen to him and swap out
>my 7200 RPM rev limiter for an 8000 chip, and squeeze my knees together real
>tight at the end of the straight. That means my 4.1 is just fine and I can
>power out of those tight corners in second.

Hey Bill, ya sure you need to be reminded it's time to lift when you see 8000?

;-)

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