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Re: Small Block red Line

To: Doug Anderson <boogiewoogie12@hotmail.com>, popms@thegrid.net,
Subject: Re: Small Block red Line
From: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 11:16:07 -0800 (PST)
And I saved it and filed it right in my reference
section.

Dick J


--- Doug Anderson <boogiewoogie12@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> 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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*         # 729           *
* C/GRS   C/FRS    D/STR  *
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