I had a friend that rode with me in the Midget shortly after I got it running.
He is a hot rodder motor head type. He was about to s**t himself at the rpm's
that I had the car at to reach 75 mph. The 1275 revs higher than most people are
used to here.
Daniel1312@aol.com wrote:
> 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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