At 10:44 PM 1/25/2001 EST, BobMGT@aol.com wrote:
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>Lawrie brings up something I've always wondered about. .... Is revving the
engine unloaded bad? ....
Per se, no, as long as you keep it under the red line. But, .... if you
are just playing around revving it to high rpms without a load you run a
significant risk of accidentally overreving it, and it only takes one slip
up and maybe one or two seconds at full throttle to blow an engine.
Barney Gaylord
1958 MGA with an attitude
http://www.ntsource.com/~barneymg
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