You need to think British here. Most american vee 8s (excepting racing
engines etc) don't really need to rev much over 5K. British 4 cyl engines
are fine when stock up to about 6K. Its only when you start to push
something like an A-series over 6.5K and certainly over 7K that you are
'running pretty high rpms'. The term 'high' is like any quantitive
description, relative.
As Frank and others have said it is the rotating stuff like the crank,
flywheel and clutch that are well worth balancing. With rods the best thing
you can do is to have them bead blasted or lead peened (correct
terminology??).
Daniel1312
In a message dated 16/01/01 16:33:17 Pacific Standard Time,
toyman@digitex.net writes:
<< but an inline four is a slightly different principle but running pretty
high RPM's >>
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