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Re: what is meant by over revving an engine?

Subject: Re: what is meant by over revving an engine?
by PeteK on 2009/9/22 14:28:21

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bogus wrote:
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iCorvette wrote:
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BrianCunningham wrote:
overrev and LT1 and you'll spin the rod bearings.


why an lt1 and not an l98? for rod bearings that is...


Actually, I was under the impression it was wrist pins... there seems to be a belief that they are weak. I haven't seen enough empirical data to back it up, considering the rotating masses are nearly identical.

I have seen the wrist pins get yanked through a cast piston in a high rmp motor making decent power.
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