David Under acceleration, if you bang it into second when you wanted fourth, you WILL over-rev your motor - the limiter has nothing to say about it. Or coming downhill, say... I remember hitting 6200RPM in fourth in my Twin Cam Fiat and banging it into fifth - missed and got third and learned that Fiat rod bolts are good to ~7500 RPM! That exhaust valve was banged into and broken off so it was in the way when the piston was coming back up, so either the keepers let go, the spring broke or the valve was floating...
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 11:46 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>wrote: > At 02:16 AM 5/24/2009, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote: > >> re >> Maybe, or maybe that's what happens when you spin your WBX to 7000 RPM on >> a >> missed shift! =) >> > > It won't go there -- the limiter kicks in around 5600 rpm. > > I'd just call it failure due to age and stress, or cheapness of material >> in >> the first place. >> > > I took a handful of these unused valves out of Bob Donald's trash > pile once. They looked cheap and terrible compared to the valves he > was using. The finish was bad, the machining sloppy, the material > seemed soft. Reminded me of machine-tool stuff coming out of India > around the same time. > > -- > David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ > '89 Po' White Star "Scamp" >
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