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Re: Fw: RPM's too high?

To: Steve Byers <byers@cconnect.net>
Subject: Re: Fw: RPM's too high?
From: "Wm. Severin Thompson" <wsthompson@thicko.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 06:34:17 -0600
Cc: spridgets <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
Organization: Team Thicko
References: <19971125035826593.AAA226@default>
Reply-to: "Wm. Severin Thompson" <wsthompson@thicko.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Steve,


My race Sprite runs all day at 7,500 RPM.

WST
Team Thicko


Steve Byers wrote:

> > From: Steve Byers <byers@cconnect.net>
> > To: J. Neil Doane <root@yeah.indstate.edu>; Rick Brown
> <mgrick@ptd.net>
> > Cc: Tom Reichard <tom@lakemurray.com>; mgs@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: RPM's too high?
> > Date: Monday, November 24, 1997 10:45 PM
> >
> > In the 10 years I have owned my Midget, I have made many all-day
> cruises
> > between Havelock, NC and Washington, DC (about 350 miles one way) at
> 3000
> -
> > 3500 rpm.  I haven't  torn down the engine, so I can't comment yet
> on
> what,
> > if anything, this has done to the motor, except that it continues to
>
> purr.
> > I use a lead substitute on those cruises out of town, just in case
> it
> does
> > some good; and I try to keep the rpm to below 3500, just in case it
> does
> > some good  (3500 is the limit to my comfort level.  I did hit 95 mph
>
> coming
> > down a hill in Pennsylvania this summer, but it was out of gear :-)
> >
> > Steve Byers
> > Havelock, NC USA
> > '73 Midget GAN5UD126009G   "OO NINE"
> >
> > -------------------------------
> > >
> > > So are you saying keeping your lil MG engine wound up to 3500+
> RPMs
> over
> > > extended periods of time is okay?  I'm curious too, as I'm a new
> MG
> owner
> > > and have noticed the high revs cruising at highway speeds and
> wondered
> if
> > > it was hard on the car to drive it so fast.
> > >
> > > neil doane





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