10,000 RPM

[Steve Gorkowski]

The Fords have to be near 9k to produce the power needed  for Yates heads. For
Nascar short track cars 7.5k is getting very common on Fords and Chevy .

Steve



Bruce Plecan wrote:

> | >Have never seen an american production V8 with titanium valves and
> | >retainers, triple springs, stud girdles (for you chevy guys) etc. etc.
> | >required for 10,000 rpm operation.
> | >Mega buck Nascar engines don't even like that much rpm.
>
> Maybe a couple years ago.  Some of the incar footage has shown over 9K in
> race conditions, and I'd wager, that in qualifing, they are close if not at
> 10K.
> Grumpy
>
> | Aaron Willis