dICK: SAGE ADVISE FROM "oNE'A da oTHER" dOUG'S. I'M IN TOTAL AGREEMENT.
dAT GUY MUST GO rEELIE fAST.....hE NOES HIS STUFFFF!
DIRTY DOUG iN nEW yUK
From: DOUG ODOM <popms@thegrid.net>
Reply-To: DOUG ODOM <popms@thegrid.net>
To: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
CC: land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Small Block red Line
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 18:40:53 -0800
Dick; Rev limit is determined by the stroke and piston design in the
lower end. My E motor with 2.7 stroke at 9 grand has the same piston
speed as a 3.48 stroke ( 350 Chevy) at 7500 rpm. Valve float or bounce
is the Rev limiter in the top end of the motor.
It would do you no good to build a motor with a roller cam, rev kit,
and Titanium valves, then put the heads on a block with stock cast
pistons and crank. You can only go as fast as the weakest link will let
you go. You might go around to the local roundy round track and talk to
who builds the good motors for them. They have to live and make horse
power. Doug Odom in big ditch
Dick J wrote:
>
> Not knowing a lot about Chev small bolocks, I set
> a self-imposed red line of 6200. I did wind it
> right to 6200 on my last run, and that limit
> still managed to put me into the record book, but
> I'm wondering what a reasonable red-line should
> be. I don't want to be breaking motors, but I
> do want to see what it can do. This is an
> all-stock Chev 350, 4 bolts, stock rockers and
> springs in 882 (76cc) Chev head castings, flat
> top pistons, and a cam that specs out at 260. My
> plan for spring is to install an electric water
> pump and electric fan. The motor would have
> wound just a little more this year, but with
> those changes, it will hopefully have just enough
> more power to allow a little tighter winding
> (valve train permitting, of course). What do you
> guys think the max RPM for that motor should be?
>
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