<vbg> Right! Of course, them ol' Chevies, they are a bit more forgiving.
Unlike my Lotus with the 907 2 liter that redlined at 7000 and bent all the
valves at 7100. (Of course it wouldn't run in the rain, leaving me stranded
on the A45 a couple of times.) My old 427 let me run it all day Saturday at
Daytona at 7200, much too fast. And it wasn't until the afternoon race on
Sunday that it said "pop" very softly and quietly and just decided it wasn't
running no more on the Number 2 rod. Other seven still ran fine. <vbg>
Of course, the real test for any new race driver on what to run is - what
can I get parts for on a Saturday afternoon in Sebring or Summit Point?
They don't stock a lot of Lotus parts. And until about '92, it was just
plain hard to find any parts after 12 noon Saturday, except in the parking
lot. <vbg>
----- Original Message -----
From: <WSpohn4@aol.com>
To: <mcobine@earthlink.net>; <carlynneracing@home.com>
Cc: <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: MSD
> In a message dated 13/07/01 8:56:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> mcobine@earthlink.net writes:
>
>
> > Now in a Chevy, you can take that a long way, unlike a lot of the BMC
> > stuff that explode into pieces at anything over a heartbeat. A man's
got to
> > know his limitations.
> >
>
> Yeah - that's true, those damned 970 Coopers won't go much above 10,000
rpm.
> Even my buddies Ginetta would do better than that with it's Cosworth 1000.
> I'm sure your Chevies would do much better ........;-)
>
> Bill
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